Jonard Tools EX-2 DIP/IC Extraction Tool for Mircochips with 24-40 Pin

I bought this to work on my Commodore 64 computers. Works great, more with larger chips like the 6510 CPU and CIA chips, but removed the smaller ROM chips just fine. Useless to me when it came to the smaller RAM and logic chips - otherwise, a great must have tool so you don't bend the pins when removing.

My old extractor was lost in a move and had to be replaced. I had it since the late 80's and it worked fine. It was a heave bit of hard plastic for the main body, but it's insides were pretty much the same as this new one. This new one works just as well as the old one. It's only possible down side is the main body is made of rather thin plastic. As long as you don't throw it around, or leave it floating in a toolbag, it should be fine for years to come. The vast majority of bad reviews for this seem to be from people who assumed the body of the tool was made of metal and we're angry to discover it was made of plastic. Trust me, you don't want a big, heavy, chunk of metal to slap on a delicate PCB and yank chips out. There is nothing wrong with the main body being made of plastic, and infact it has advantages. Wether or not the plastic will stand up to heavy use and time is something I'll find out in the next 10 to 20 years. If it breaks in that time period , then I'll update this review. Until then, I consider this extractor to be worth it's price. ***Update 03/12/25*** Well I managed to break it. My fault entirely. I went to grab it and it slipped from my hand. I did one of those attempts at quickly trying to grab it while it was falling and ended up forcefully slamming it into the edge of my workbench, where it bounced into the had floor and busted the body. So today I'm here to buy a new one. I still think they are worth it considering the older, better original version of these things rarely show up on ebay and sell for $80+ dollars. This cost reduced version isn't as tough as the original model but if you aren't slamming into 90 degree edges or hard floor, it will work fine. My biggest complaint from the past 5 to 6 years of use is the gripping fingers are kinda thin and flex enough to slip free some times. Just keep trying and it will work. Better than bent pins from prizing up one end to high.

Works perfectly at what it does. I was surprised how easy this made it to remove an IC without risking bending or breaking a pin (especially useful for 40 year old ICs that you really don't want to risk breaking a pin on!). The exterior of the housing looks like chrome/metal but it's really plastic, which was a little misleading. It still works fine though, but I feel if it's going to be plastic, don't make it seem like it's something it's not.

I sort of laughed at this product at first -- it seemed very overengineered for a product category dominated by bent pieces of steel with a prong on either end that you need to buy in bulk to even warrant the cost of shipping. But I had a really stubborn DIP that needed pulling, so I gave it a try...and it popped out easily! Not sure if it's strictly worth it over your standard chip pullers, but I'll certainly be keeping mine on hand in the future.

Just to clear up any uncertainty about what this thing does: you place it over the wide DIP chip you want to pull from its socket, and while holding it down against the socket, you squeeze the black handles so that the grabber tightens around the chip and pulls it from the socket, the socket held down by the chrome-colored arms that you're keeping held down against the sides of the socket. I haven't come across anything else that does that; the other devices here on Amazons are ones that you attach to the chip, and then pull the whole ensemble out together. I've had lots of problems with those bending pins as one side pulls out before the other, but the whole virtue of this one is that that won't happen. As to the criticisms: I've read other reviews saying they've bent pins with this. I imagine that if you're pulling it out like one of the other tools, whole ensemble together, then yes, you can bend pins. But you'd be using it wrong. Sometimes the chip will be so tight in its socket that you won't have the strength to squeeze the handle (and there's no leverage amplifying your force), in which case I've had success with using a flat screwdriver to provide the initial un-sticking, and finishing it off with this tool. Its value is really in the last stage of the extraction, guaranteeing that when it comes out it'll be vertical. But most of the time, I haven't needed to provide it additional support. As for the thing needing lots of space to function: this has not been my experience at all. I've used it to successfully pull EPROMs out of a CPS1 B-board, which are packed right next to each other (left-to-right). I can imagine that if there's zero space top-to-bottom between chips, this might be a problem, but I've never seen a board like that, and you can pre-squeeze the grabbers to be the distance you want before lowering. Some have questioned how the grounding pin can operate when the body it's connected to is plastic. Had they taken the time to measure it and used an ohmmeter on it, they'll see it nevertheless is conductive. Holding one probe to the grounding pin and the other to the base where the extractor would press against the socket, the resistance I measured was 0.2 ohms, holding it loosely to take the photo. Lastly, for 'plastic junk'. That's unfair — this *is* plastic (they're not claiming it's not. It looks like metal because of the conductive surface needed for the grounding), but it's fairly well made, and does the job better than anything else I've ever used or seen. I'll admit, it's not perfect. I'd love it if the grabbers were more substantial (they're somewhat thin metal, and can bend), and some kind of leverage system to amplify my pulling force would be great. Maybe I'll wear this one out in time, but on balance I really can't recommend it highly enough. Just make sure you understand how to use it.

It's a tiny bit on the flimsy side, but it seems to work fine. I don't have a lot of experience removing proms, but I think this tool makes it much less likely to bend the pins. Prying them up with a screwdriver never seemed like a good idea to me anyway.

This device is superior to prying a chip out of a socket with a screwdriver. Just make sure the hooks line up before squeezing the lever. I wish I had this years ago.

I didn't realize this wouldn't work on smaller chips. Not the fault of the item. I used it on some larger chips on an old arcade PCB. The first two times I bent pins, but after that they all came out smoothly.

Parfait

Als alter Elektrobastler ist es immer ein kleines Problem, ICs aus ihren Fassungen zu heben. Hier haben wir ein gutes Werkzeug, das uns dabei helfen kann, das Bauteil gut auszuhebeln, ohne es zu beschädigen.

Me ha gustado que es capaz de extraer chips de 42 y 40 pines sin mucho esfuerzo. Algo que no me ha gustado es q es un poco latoso el quitarlos del extractor una vez que han salido. Comparado con otros que he tenido es el mejor sin duda. No es de metal, es un material plástico salvo las garras que sí que son de acero o algún metal muy resistente. Excelente producto.

5th November 2025 This IC Extractor worked an absolute treat, I removed the IC EPROMs in seconds with this tool. 5 stars for workmanship and cost effectiveness.

Works great