From: dean.phares@gmail.com   
      
   On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 7:59:40 AM UTC-5, Steven Hirsch wrote:   
   > On 8/25/22 18:18, magnusfalkirk wrote:    
   > > I got the AppleSqueezer GS in the mail yesterday. Opened it up and read    
   > > through the instructions on installing it today. Was trying to use a small    
   > > flat bladed screwdriver to pry up the 65816 and was unable to budge it.    
   > > Would I be better off buying a chip puller tool to extract the cpu with,   
   or    
   > > is there some other way to do it? From what I can tell the 65816 doesn't    
   > > want to come out very easy and I don't want to screw up the computer by    
   > > using too much pressure to get it out.    
   > >    
   > > Any suggestions, thoughts, ideas will be appreciated. magnus   
   > A small screwdriver is definitely the best approach. When a 40-pin chip has    
   > been in a socket for 30+ years it tends to cold-weld itself in place and can    
   > require a surprising amount of force to break it free. I would suggest    
   > placing the screwdriver "off center" and close to the pins. Prying from the    
   > middle pits you against both sides at once.    
   >    
   > Another thing occurs to me: Are you sure you have the screwdriver blade    
   > between the chip and the socket? I've lost count of the number of times I've    
   > had the blade between the socket and PCB when working without magnification    
   > and good light.    
   >    
   > Once you get a corner lifted work back and forth between ends and "see-saw"   
   it    
   > out.   
      
   Thanks for the response. The first time I tried I put the blad all the way   
   down on the motherboard and then took a better at it with a flashlight. Since   
   then I've made sure to have the blade between the chip and the socket, since   
   there is a little    
   overhang with the end of the chip. I'll keep working at it and definitely work   
   from a side instead the middle of the chip.   
      
   Thanks again,   
   magnus   
      
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