Re: Heisenbugs in my Tempest

Sounds like quite the adventure !

FWIW:

I clean chip legs with a razor blade. The idea
of a high speed dremel tool in my hands is not a
good idea ;-)

I lay the chip on the bench, place a small piece
of wood under the opposite side I'm cleaning, and
just kinda swipe/scrape all the legs at once. Just
a few gentle strokes and your finished. I then finish
off by placing the chip in one of those plastic pin
straightening gizmo's you squeeze with your palm.

YMMV

Todd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan McCormick" <weirdal1968@yahoo.com>
To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 4:45:55 PM GMT -06:00 Central America
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Heisenbugs in my Tempest

Everything I posted was learned the hard way. Pokeys, ROMs, PROMs and 2901s randomly failing and passing depending on temperature/phase of moon/what I ate for dinner drove me up the wall until I realized pin oxidation was often the root cause. Don't even want to know how many good chips I folded and tossed because of "pin-snot" (C).

Someday I should break out my tripod and do a tutorial video on chip cleaning. I'll add that to the to-do list.
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