I Always use sockets now Re: [sdiy] IC socket question

[groovyshaman at snet.net]

> harrybissell wrote:
>

> The Diplomate sockets have a standoff that allows washing under the
socket...
> and the pins are tightly inserted... I've never seen one wick up flux.

Good information... these are definitely worth a try.

> If you wave solder and get the flux over the TOP of the board... it can
make a
> real mess. That would be true of any socket.

DIY wave soldering - now THAT would be interesting (as in the Chineese
saying: may you live in "interesting" times).

> (I saw one back from the field. Someone must have had a long lunch anc a
couple
> of fatties out in the parking lot. When it came in for service YEARS later
it
> was a real mess... you can imagine ;^)

Yikes. :/

George