Date   : Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:37:56 +0100
From   : "Mike" <profpep@...>
Subject: Re: Now Roms including Was Exile now off topic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Colin" <cwhill@...>
To: "BBC Micro Mailing List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Now Roms including Was Exile now off topic


>> Having brutally heaved out a couple of ROMs from my BBC  B, I seem to
have
> snapped off a leg or two  (not my own legs, I hasten to add). I am sure
> there must have been a tool to remove them but, being ham-fisted, they
came
> out at an angle.
> Is there a way to repair them (I only have basic kit - a soldering iron,
> flux and solder) and no electronic testing tools. I am hoping there may be
a
> set routine for this.
A useful trick is to use a 28 pin turned pin socket as a carrier. Fit the
IC, apart from the snapped legs, of course, then solder thin wires to
'bridge' the broken pins into their appropriate sockets on the IC socket.
The whole assembly can then be plugged back in.  If you've broken the legs
off at the package edge, you're out of luck!

I've often used this trick to get copies of damaged EPROMs, then burn new
ones as working replacements.

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