Making keychains from dead processors....

[Brian07]

What in the heck do you guys use to drill through these things? I'm trying to convert an old P166 and an old P90. I've tried several different bits and I'm not making much progress.

Thanks,

Brian07

 

[Bignate603]

the ceramic stuff is tough junk, try a carbide tipped maybe?

 

[perry]

I've been meaning to post a question about this myself. I have a P133 here that I'd like to make a keychain out of. Just been too lazy to make the thread myself. Free bump for ya, even though this was still in the top 20 threads when I found it

 

[Ladies Man]

diamond tipped drill bit

 

[divinemartyr]

I've read various techniques on this, it's best to solder a metal loop to the processor and do it that way.

dm

 

[jawa666]

get you some o' that big ol' dang ol' JB Weld

 

[Pastore]

so THATS what i can do with this old 486 processor, thanks for the idea!!!

 

[Brian07]

Great ideas, guess I'll try some sort of soldered on rig. I didn't do a search before I posted, sorry, guess I should of, but I didn't


Brian07

 

[Pastore]

my dad works in a machining factory, and he says that diamond tipped bits are like 150 bucks!!! damn!! he thinks hes got some at work though, so he can do it for me, go me

 

[sharkeeper]

I desoldered a socket 8 socket from a Shuttle HOT 613 mainboard and made a belt buckle out of it. I put a 166 MHz 512 K Pentium Pro Processor in the socket as well. Talk about a conversation piece!

Cheers!

 

[Pastfinder]

I've always wanted to take a 486 chip and encase it in Lucite to put on my desk, thought it would look nice!

 

[Supradude]

for those soldering, where are the solder points?... the top of most processors are ceramic except for the core/heat spreader, the back is a multitude of pins?... is the best way a loop from the corner of the core to a small group of pins?

 

[yakko]

<< Making keychains from dead processors >>

I would hate to fall on my keys and have all those little pins stick in my leg.

 

[Howard]

LOL

 

[shiznut123]

Ouch...:disgust:

 

[derek]

I couldn't get it to work with my p3