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marc@corto.laas.fr (Marc Vaisset) writes:
>In article <4p07u4$9nu@godzilla.zeta.org.au> craig@zeta.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
>> >What's the best way of pulling 30-pin simms out of 
>> >IPCs or SS1s?  I don't have the extraction tool that's
>> >shown in the Answerbook for doing this.  I've also tried
>> >contacting a few electronics stores here in Dallas -- none
>> >of them ever heard of an extraction tool for 30-pin simms.
>> 
>> I have two alternative tools for extracting SIMM's. One is a sheetmetal
>> scribing tool which has a 90 degree bend at one end. Insert the tip in the
>> hole in the SIMM's PCB, and use the bend to provide leverage against the
>> plastic of the socket. Do this at both ends and voila! One removed SIMM! 
>> 

>I do the same for a couple of years and I'm still alive. My tool is
>the little key to drive screws on the old SUN triple Europe VME
>boards. I think it's the unique safe way to remove these SIMMS.

Well, there do exist such things, (extraction tool for 30-pin
SIMMs). I think I have a couple, one even directly from Sun, with the
Sun logo on it..  It is a metal rod with a flat cross piece on it, the
ends curve down a little, and on the inside lower corner there is a
little round post that comes out. What happens is the little post gets
into the hole on a 30-pin SIMM, and you lever the SIMMs out. Works really
well, but those sockets on the SS1/SS2's boards sure are tight. 

Alternatively I just take a pair of needle nose pliers, grab one corner
of the SIMM, and carefully strongly pull straight up. It will pull the
whole SIMM in one fell swoop. (But be careful of bypass caps, don't even
think of trying to grip onto those, you'll crush and destroy them). 

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