{"id":46,"date":"2011-02-04T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2011-02-04T15:06:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T15:06:46","slug":"howto-dil-ic-leg-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Howto: DIL IC leg repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got an IC that you&#8217;ve been working on, and you&#8217;ve managed to snap a leg off.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, you can:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_55\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-55\" title=\"Broken DIL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-5-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-5-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-5-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broken DIL - oh noes!<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Fly into a rage because you&#8217;ve just broken something that is nearly impossible to replace<\/li>\n<li>Search google and get frustrated at the futility of the search<\/li>\n<li>Have a beer.\u00c2\u00a0 Or two.<\/li>\n<li>Wonder how to repair the thing, after all the DIL package is only there to make it easy for us humans to handle the thing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I went from stage 1 through 4 within about 10 minutes, and found a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicspoint.com\/fixing-broken-ic-legs-t56612.html\">useful article on electronicspost<\/a>, which offered a little hope that there might be enough metal to solder onto.<\/p>\n<p>There wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-4-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-53\" title=\"DIL meets Dremel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-4-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-4-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-4-1-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-4-1-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DIL\/Dremel interface<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So it was out with the Dremel to see if I could gently coax some more metal into being visible.\u00c2\u00a0 Not the world&#8217;s greatest job, but a result nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>From here, I managed to solder a leg on.\u00c2\u00a0 I then used a spare 16 pin DIL socket to mount the chip into semi-permanently so that stress on that replacement leg could be avoided.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all? <strong>The chip works perfectly!<\/strong> Which is what is known in the trade as a result.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_49\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-49 \" title=\"DIL repaired\" src=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-3-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-3-1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-3-1-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/A1k-3-1-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-49\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Repaired DIL<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If I can do this, anyone can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ve got an IC that you&#8217;ve been working on, and you&#8217;ve managed to snap a leg off.\u00c2\u00a0 At this point, you can: Fly into a rage because you&#8217;ve just broken something that is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-howtos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.binarydevotion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}