Just yesterday my zif socket arrived from digikey. So I took an old memcal I had laying around and desoldered the stock eprom. Now that I have the old eprom off there is room for the ZIF socket, but it says to solder it to the memcal. It doesn't look like there is enough room to solder the ZIF socket on, any tips on doing this one??

Thanks

 

You'll need a very small tip for your soldering iron, and a steady hand. I used these to solder in a low-profile ZIF socket, and ended up using the tip to burn a little out of the edge of the memcal where it was in the way. This doesn't affect it structurally, but it sure isn't as pretty...

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Greg Westphal
'87 IROC 355TPI/A4

 

If you had clipped the old prom off, then soldered to the old bits of the legs would have been easier