[sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs

[Harry Bissell]

a vision of some fakir lying on a bed of 74xx DIPs (pins up :^)...

H^) harry  (whole new meaning...uhhh... I mean same OLD meaning as "testing on a bed of nails" :^)

----- Original Message -----
From: Noah Vawter <nvawter at media.mit.edu>
To: Doug Terrebonne <dougt55 at yahoo.com>
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Sent: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:33:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs



hahaha  ironically, it has so many pins, it starts to become safe  
again because the load gets distributed :)


On Mar 23, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Doug Terrebonne wrote:

> Well at least you didn't step on one of those first gen Motorola  
> 68000s, those
> things were huge! Anyone know of a bigger sized DIP?
>
> Doug
> syntparts.com
>
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Chris Strellis <Chris.Strellis at crystalvision.tv>
>> To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>> Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 4:10:24 AM
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Why you should wear shoes while stuffing pcbs
>>
>>> Heh, there are only two kinds of DIYers, those who've stepped  
>>> barefoot
>>> on a DIP
>>> IC and those that will...
>>
>> Yep, stepped on an up turned EPROM. 28 pins of pain in the heel of my
>> foot. I even had to get a screw driver to lever it out of my foot!  I
>> should have put a ZIF there.
>>
>> At least I don't forget anymore...must be the Read Only Memory
>> capability I now have ;)
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Chris
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