[SunRescue] Pulling SIMMs (was Sparcstation with 0 MB (does it boot ?))

[Nick Poolos]

If you have to go with the needle nose pliers route, covering the tips with electrical tape helps.  This buys you a litte padding and will keep the pliers possible pouging up the cirucuit board.  Just be sure that you are gripping a trace and pull real hard.  

NeXT's also used this type of SIMM socket.  They actually sold the "NeXT SIMM removal tool", a NeXT logoed dental pick.  So yes a dental pick is probably your best choice.  They should run ~$5 at a model railroad or other hobby shop.

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Nick

* Hatle, Steven J. (shatle at vue.com) [000310 11:14]:
> I've always used a needle-nosed pliers and pulled straight up from one end.
> Seems to have been OK.
> 
> Steve
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> I think the SS2 has the same slots as the IPC, which you ignore the little
> clips, and pull the simm straight up out of the slots.  A steel hooked
> dentist pick makes a great tool, just stick it through the hole in the
> simm and pull.  I also have used a pair of pliers without any ill results,
> but wouldn't recommend it if you had alternatives.  I think there is an
> "official" tool with a Sun part number, but I have never seen one.
> 
> Tim
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