[Elecraft] Straigthening IC-legs (was KAT100)

[Charles Greene]

Martin and All,

I just use needle nose pliers with long tips.  Place the pins on one side=20
in the pliers and bend in slightly, then do the other side.  Use a grounded=
=20
wrist strap or otherwise ground your self to keep from zapping the IC with=
=20
static electricity.  Have been doing it for years and have never had a=
 problem.

At 10:44 AM 12/18/2002 +0100, Martin wrote:
> >HOWEVER, what drives me absolutely bats is straightening
> > the "legs" on the IC's! I've managed to almost mangle several
> > in the process. Why can't they be manufactured with straight
> > legs to begin with??
>
>Conrad Elektronik, a company in DL, sells a small tool to straighten the
>legs of IC=B4s up to 40pins.
>You put the body of the IC on a bar with the legs hanging down
>on each side of the bar. then you squeeze a handle against the bar/legs
>on each side and straighten the legs this way.
>Since we are elecrafters, there should be no problem to build our own
>tool made of 3 bars of wood or plastic.
>
>73
>Martin


73, Chas, W1CG
K2 #462