Reseating chips

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Fri Aug 23 03:10:01 2002

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> The second thing will help for good contact and that is to use a silicon
> grease, like Dow Corning #4, on the pin leads. I've been told the
> Permatex dielectric grease is the same thing and I've used a product
> call Silglyde. Although, it is called a grease, it has poor lubrication
> properties but it will cause parts the come out with spring tension to
> come out easier, I've not seen problems with the leads straightened and
> the part weight being the only factor.

I wonder if that would work similar to something like Stabilant 22? I've
been tempted to try using that product for IC sockets, but really haven't
had the need yet.

-Toth
Received on Fri Aug 23 2002 - 03:10:01 BST