wade7575
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I have been a Hobbist of building a lot of different electronic's kit's and fixing thing's like replaing blown Caps or Resistor's but there is one thing I have never been able to figure out and that's why is it when you buy a kit that use's a threw hole IC chip the hole spacing on the board is never the same for the IC Chip and if they give you a IC socket that you solder in first and then you are supposed to push the IC chip into it.
Here is what I can not understand how stupid are the company's that make the IC chip's and the socket's what point is there to making a IC socket and you still have to bend the leg's on the IC inwards because they are to wide,I really hate having to bend them as they can break very easy and plus it is a pain to get everyone bent in the same so they are all lined up.
Is there some tool that you are supposed to use to do this or some trick to doing it right,it's IC chip's like these in the icture I'm talking about,I don't have any problems with the smaller IC's it's the one's that have 10 more leg's per-side that give me the most problem's.
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Here is what I can not understand how stupid are the company's that make the IC chip's and the socket's what point is there to making a IC socket and you still have to bend the leg's on the IC inwards because they are to wide,I really hate having to bend them as they can break very easy and plus it is a pain to get everyone bent in the same so they are all lined up.
Is there some tool that you are supposed to use to do this or some trick to doing it right,it's IC chip's like these in the icture I'm talking about,I don't have any problems with the smaller IC's it's the one's that have 10 more leg's per-side that give me the most problem's.
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