David Maynard wrote:

I take the direct approach and simply break the appropriate pin off
the
chip carrier but you're screwed if you go cross-eyed and break off the
wrong one, although P2B in here seems to have mastered some form of
voo-doo that enabled him to actually solder pins back on one of his.
Seems unlikely
to me that mere mortals should count on replicating that feat, though.

Hey! That was me who managed to solder a pin back on a CPU (Celly 600).
Unless P2B has done it as well. :-)
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