Just remembered this from school.
If for whatever reason you are soldering ICs without a DIL socket or even transistors you can dessipate some of the heat and therefore protect the componant a bit by clipping an old style bulldog clip on to the componant.
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wtf is a bulldog clip, i don t have a dog
wtf is a bulldog clip, i don t have a dog
… take a bull and a female dog and after a few month you have some tiny sweet bulldogs.
Also used as a coercion device on enemy combatants at Guantanamo…
I wonder if something similar to this would work on SMD chips - like for MB FM?
Also used as a coercion device on enemy combatants at Guantanamo…
I wonder if something similar to this would work on SMD chips - like for MB FM?
Yes, that kind of thing but the old style.. the ones which don’t grip so strongly…
I use an ordinary crocodile clip. Works great. 