You really should have a special tool … Do you have any electronics buddies?

If you don’t remove those chips evenly from the socket, you can damage the pins on the socket, the pins of the IC and even the socket itself. If you absolutely can’t get the proper tool then sacrifice a pair of needle point tweezers, split them in half and insert one half into each corner of socket (extended groove) and gently and as evenly as possible, pry out the part.

Here are 2 links to extraction tools:

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/webtronics_2058_870571

http://parts.digikey.com/1/parts/303214-plcc-extraction-tool-general-822154-1.html

Jeff

 

 

One more question about pulling the chip.  Do I need a special tool to do that? 

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Mike

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Mike Fontenot
Apex Consulting & Services LLC
Lakewood, Colorado
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mikef AT apexconsultingservices DOT com
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