CPU -> Keychain

[gvblake22]

What would be the best way to really turn an old processor (AMD K6 233) into a real keychain. Yep, thats right , I really wanna do it and it would be cool to keep the pins on there somehow but I don't want them to stick me in the leg or something...

What do you suggest?

 

[webfanatic]

I did it with a 486 AMD. I removed the pins and drilled a hole through the ceramics in a corner with diamond drill bits. It looks good enough even without the pins - I don't think that it would be comfortable to keep them.

 

[overXposure]

about the only way to do it and keep the pins in is to encase it in acrylic ... and then drill a hole for a keyring and chain to be located...

 

[qualhiveldorf]

you wouldn't have to completely encase it in acrylic, instead you could cut out a piece to the exact size of the CPU then with a heat gun, heat up the acrylic then pushthe pins into the block of acrylic. With this method you need to get the acrylic very hot. Another method would be to very carefully sand the pins down until they are 1-3 mm long. With this method you want to make sure you don't smash the pins up.

 

[toyomatt84]

Find some two-part poly mix (for encasing the entire thing).
Then make a paper wall around the chip with the chip pins up first inside it.
Mix your poly and pour into the paper surrounding your chip, until it's covering the pins as much as you'd like.

Make sure to use a heavy construction, wax-sided piece of paper, otherwise you'll have to deal with paper-breaking or sticking to the poly.

 

[tbones1337]

drill..

1900+ fried on a k7ADA

drilled a hole into the corner.. then i found out how to take out the pins. (nail clippers)... love the keychain

 

[k3nshin]

you could just bend down the pins instead of removing or covering in epoxy

 

[Kendan]

Pentium 200 MMX and the pins are still there. A few are bent down but it really doesn't poke to bad Have fun

 

[tbones1337]

my pentium!!

i used to have a p2 mmx 200mhz, on a keychain.. pins were bent on the corner.. anyways.. have fun..

 

[PHILIP1193]

that looks wicked that does, if i ever fry a cpu i am going to do that!!!

Phil

 

[Kendan]

that looks wicked that does, if i ever fry a cpu i am going to do that!!!

Phil

Fried????? It wasn't fried it just ****ed me off one to many times

 

[Captain Slug]

I heard that masonry bits work best for srilling through ceramic age CPUs. Just make sure to support it from underneath.
It would be fairly cool to encase it in clear resin though.

 

[gvblake22]

That sounds cool to encase it in some acrylic or something, but where the hell would I find the materials to do something like that and how would I actually do it with just regular tools/skills???

 

[Korndog]

been there, done that

Rip 2100+ Pally, may it rest in peace.. in my pocket!
the pins hurt like hell sometimes btw

 

[SK8]

I tried to do this to my 2500 aqxea when it died and wow im left with more then a keychain! The drill wasnt going fast enough so i put the bit in my dremel bc it fit good and i set the dremel to max speed and i guess the bit was off set bc it vibrated and flew off so now im left with a chunk out of my finger and omg it hurt soooooo bad!

 

[Diggrr]

Heh, Mine is an i386 DX25. That's right baby...25 Megahurts of smokin intel processor!
The first computer that I built *sniffle*.

I used a tiny pair of diagonal cutters (static safe, of course) and snipped off all the pins. I then filed them all flat to the pads, and put it on the kitchen stove (the DX had no visible core, only flat ceramic) with flux slathered on the pin area. Then one pin at a time got a dab of solder so they were all smooth.
I then bent a piece of 12 gage copper wire to make a 90° bend with a loop in said corner, and soldered the two legs to some of the solder points. The copper loop joins to the key loop nicely.

Nice and easy, no poking, and no specialty tools required.

 

[Captain Slug]

That sounds cool to encase it in some acrylic or something, but where the hell would I find the materials to do something like that and how would I actually do it with just regular tools/skills???

Clear resin is a liquid you pour into a mold and after a few hours becomes a solid clear block. It would require not tools asside from a mould to pour into. Most people use plumbing putty to make a temporary mould cast to pour the resin into. But a vacu-form plastic shape from product packaging also works well.

 

[jabaro]

Awesome Idea.... I'm going to do the same

 

[Cerberus2k7]

Clear resin is a liquid you pour into a mold and after a few hours becomes a solid clear block. It would require not tools asside from a mould to pour into. Most people use plumbing putty to make a temporary mould cast to pour the resin into. But a vacu-form plastic shape from product packaging also works well.

That's what I was thinking of! Kinda like the stuff they used to have with those star wars battle scene sets. Pour it in, place the little models in the pose you want, and then it hardens and you have a cool little battle scene

 

[Borgy]

cut some Plexi in small chunks then poor assatone over them in a glass jar
the assatone turns the pexi into a thick jelly the after the assatone evaporates the plexi is soild and clear again
Borgy