WOW you are truly a blessing I purchased a bunch of these for my drum machine did not know they were in that position my gosh!! like WHAT DA!!! But thank you so much for this video cheers!!
Wow, never thought of that. I should check the ZIF sockets I have to see what they look like. I haven't tried to make a ZIF CoCo yet, as 90% of the broken CoCos I get in are because of RAM. All of my other chips just have standard dual wipe sockets on them, which is fine for now. I might put a ZIF socket on one of the RAM slots.
1) I think ZIF pins are oriented that way to cause minimum trauma on installing in breadboards 2) If you are NOT using 2-sided board with plated-thru holes, just ream the holes with a rat-tail-file or ground-hacksaw-blade 3) If you have the fingers of a brain-surgeon, you could grind half the pins at a time on the edge of a whetstone.
ZIF sockets are great, you just need to make the holes bigger when designing the PCB. I don’t know why the legs are so huge, all ZIF sockets seem to share this.
The “round pin adapters” are formally called “machined pin sockets”; and that’s what you’d use as search terms to find them. Also - at least on the ones I’ve seen - they are split at the top; the ZIF pins may fit into them without twisting.
You've seen some different pin sockets then because there was no fitting into these. The openings are round and fit only other rounds or most IC legs, however, not the ZIF socket's wide flats.
@@acs8-bitzone651 I think he means they fit...with a hammer. Lol Seriously, I never received any like that but maybe I'll give digikey a shot vs AliExpress....I'd like to find them because that's why I don't like them ...I'm waiting to bend or snap a leg off an IC pushing them in and quite frankly it scares me away from them.
Thanks for the tip, was having the same issue.
No problem 👍
You are a blessing, I am going through a real mess, where MCU leads are constantly bent! Thank you
This thing helps!
Good solution. Thanks for the tip.
WOW you are truly a blessing I purchased a bunch of these for my drum machine did not know they were in that position my gosh!! like WHAT DA!!! But thank you so much for this video cheers!!
YW! I didn't think of it either, and the flatness and twist of those pins was not what I expected.
Wow, never thought of that. I should check the ZIF sockets I have to see what they look like. I haven't tried to make a ZIF CoCo yet, as 90% of the broken CoCos I get in are because of RAM. All of my other chips just have standard dual wipe sockets on them, which is fine for now. I might put a ZIF socket on one of the RAM slots.
1) I think ZIF pins are oriented that way to cause minimum trauma on installing in breadboards
2) If you are NOT using 2-sided board with plated-thru holes, just ream the holes with a rat-tail-file or ground-hacksaw-blade
3) If you have the fingers of a brain-surgeon, you could grind half the pins at a time on the edge of a whetstone.
The ZIF are made for program and testing, not for install main cpu broad. But the fix works good on you. keep up the good.
ZIF sockets are great, you just need to make the holes bigger when designing the PCB. I don’t know why the legs are so huge, all ZIF sockets seem to share this.
Nice idea, have the same problem. Maybe an other solution could be to file the legs (the outter side) to a smaller cross section.
Yes. In fact, a YT friend saw me struggling with that in the video and filed one down and mailed to me!
Nice job, is there a danger of breaking pins when twisting them?
It doesn't seem easily broken, no. I've done this to two 40-pin ones so far and the pins haven't broken yet. Thanks for the question and the view!
There's always a risk of metal fatigue from repeated bends. Ideally you bend it only once and then leave it alone thereafter.
The “round pin adapters” are formally called “machined pin sockets”; and that’s what you’d use as search terms to find them. Also - at least on the ones I’ve seen - they are split at the top; the ZIF pins may fit into them without twisting.
You've seen some different pin sockets then because there was no fitting into these. The openings are round and fit only other rounds or most IC legs, however, not the ZIF socket's wide flats.
@@acs8-bitzone651 I think he means they fit...with a hammer. Lol
Seriously, I never received any like that but maybe I'll give digikey a shot vs AliExpress....I'd like to find them because that's why I don't like them ...I'm waiting to bend or snap a leg off an IC pushing them in and quite frankly it scares me away from them.