SMD SOIC8 socket

[gigawatts]

From your article, you stated:
I was wanting to try out a really neat little SOIC socket I had discovered and ordered on Taobao a little while back.

Can you provide a link to that socket? I've been meaning to install exactly such a socket in a very troublesome laptop with a Winbond SOIC8 BIOS flash chip that loves to corrupt itself every couple years, requiring an extraction and reflash to get working again. I fear the next removal/reinstall cycle might lift some traces.

[thirtythreeforty]

Certainly - it's a "Wieson IC socket" - here on Taobao for $1.50 and looks like here on another site for $8.50 (but you don't have to deal with Taobao).

[gigawatts]

Cool, thank you. Just to confirm this same socket will fit my BIOS chip, what are the package dimensions of your SPI flash chip?

[thirtythreeforty]

The 208-mil 8 pin one - I think this is the "ridiculously standard" size. Winbond's package code SS.

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