[sdiy] socket question

[greg montalbano]

At 04:01 PM 6/25/02 -0400, you wrote:

>My question:  is the problem with socketed IC's likely to be caused by
>oxidation, such that I could use some "de-oxit"  to restore the effectiveness
>of the socket connection, or not?  Is there some reason that pulling the
>chips and trying a blast of de-oxit on each connection would be a
>bad/dangerous idea?
>
>-Chris

I successfully repaired a DK600 that way -- in that particular case, it wasn't
socketed ICs, but a couple-dozen DIP cables.  Cleaning the DIP pins, and 
then using them to clean the sockets overcame the 20+ years of oxidation & 
club crud
that was causing stray capacitance & hashing all the control signals.
No apparent reason it shouldn't work for ICs (as long as static precautions 
are observed, and those appallingly delicate IC pins aren't bent too much).

~G