How to straiten bent CPU pins and other PGA chips

CPU and other pin grid arrays (PGA) occasionally get bent and it is often difficult to straiten these pins.

=Equipment=
 * Mechanical pencil. Metal preferable, but plastic works OK.
 * knife: thickness must be small enough to fit between the pins
 * [[Image:Propelling mechanical-pencil.jpg|250px]]
 * Optional: Thin needle nose pliers

=Technique=
 * 1) Using the knife
 * 2) Have the blunt side facing down
 * 3) Side the pointy part of the knife through the lines of pins
 * 4) *If ascetics are important, try not to scratch the chip
 * 5) Slide the knife in any direction that works
 * 6) For completely flattened (Be careful!) They can brake very easily
 * 7) *Gently Use the knife to pick at it until it moves about 60 degrees or so. The use the pencil
 * [[Image:Pin grid array straghtening pins w knife.jpg|250px]]
 * 1) Using the pencil
 * 2) Remove the lead from the tip
 * 3) Slide the pin in the tip and bend it straight
 * 4) When the pins have multiple bends, you can stick the pencil a quarter of the way and bend it back. And continue utile its straight.
 * 5) Using the Chips Socket
 * Ideally using a zero insertion force socket (ZIF)
 * 1) This requires a little finessing
 * 2) The pins can obviously be off by a 1/10 mm or more, and that's enough to make it not fit.
 * 3) Work in the chip by wiggling it
 * 4) Push firmly, but if the pins are off by too much, then they may flatten, and that's the worst thing that could happen

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