From: utzoo!decvax!cca!AWalker@Rutgers@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.micro
Title: More on that Flaky Uart problem
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3077
Posted: Fri Sep  3 00:15:24 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 06:38:12 1982

From: Hobbit 
If your  chips are socketed, you could also try the following:
Take them out, and rebend the pins outward slightly, making sure they
are straight.  A thin flat piece of sheet metal with at least one 
straight edge is the best tool for this.  Then spray out the socket with
trichloroethylene or some equivalent cleaner, and then run fine
emery cloth along both sides of your chip pins. Resocket them.  

If you have the type of sockets that make contact to the outer side of 
the chip pins, this method will usually fix a multitude of intermittent
problems.

_H*
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