I can only assume keyring duties??? Tried tugging at one with a pair of pliers? EDIT: Try twisting one with pliers....
Making a keythingy are ya? I'd just pull them out with a tool (don't know the English word for it), but I dunno if that'd work
I have been pulling and twisting with a plier bit of a swiss army knife and I am having some success ... but it is a lot of work. Yes, keyring duties for the chip. Wanna make it for a friend. Won't I be able to drill through the brown bit of processor with a normal tip ?
A bench grinder, or any sort of spinning abrasive tool would do it. Just run the tool, and put the pins against the wheel, they should break off easily, without any damage to the CPU
Nope... the drill bit will blunt and hardly scratch the chip Koolvin drilled one or two, but spent a fortune on a drill bit to do it with.
Guess its not worth sitting there pulling out all those pins then. If I can find another chip, I could superglue two of 'em together with the pins inwards, and have a keyring through one of the pins at the side. That should work.
I took the pins off an old AMD 486 once, and I used a dremel w/ the metal cutting bit to cut the pins off, then sanded over the remaining 1mm or so using the abrasive bit (like a rough stone thingy)... But then I discovered I couldnt even scratch the surface using my drill on full speed heh.
wont a diamond bit be strong enough as i've removed all the pins from an old 486 chip and was gonna try a diamond drill bit but couldn't afford one i tried a HSS drill bit and it just snap and flow off across the work shop
damm, what exact material is a cpu made of.. i tried to drill a hole through a old mac cpu.. didnt even like make a dent
arn't Athlon XP's made out of a softer material than older ceramic ones like the thunderbird and 486's etc?
You could always epoxy a small metal ring to the corner of it, and put the keyring on that...just an idea. ~Davy
