I have some vintage Soviet clone microprocessors I want to play with. They are in a . (They look like the images attached to this post.) I have never worked with this format before. The instructional video seems to describe a standard surface-mount component soldering technique. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
But what about bending the leads? A specialized tool is used in the video (and in other videos in the series). I could fabricate such a tool, possibly with the help of my wife who does metalwork. The video also mentions duck-billed pliers, but that sounds a bit dangerous for a beginner like me. I'm worried that with pliers I will accidentally stress the lead at the component and damage the component internally. A quick-and-dirty solution is to clamp the leads close to the component body in a bench vice, using a couple of strips of flat metal so that the component body is not clamped as well, and then bend the leads.
I'm considering a third option: I could fabricate a solderless socket, perhaps an adapter to a DIP socket. Or maybe these already exist for this kind of package? Using a socket has the additional advantage that I don't have to commit the component to a single circuit forever. (I could of course solder the component to a socket/adapter as well.)
Has anyone had experience with these types of components? What advice do you have for me to minimize the chances I damage my flat-pack planar components?
Unrelated: I love old-school instructional videos like this. There's something about them that modern instructional videos can't reproduce.