haha! I had a couple bring me a computer one time that had been in several shops, all wanting megabucks to "fix" it, one said a motherboard, one said said processor, one said both. Along with the things they brought was a cpu that looked like it had been thrown into a load of short iron and tossed around awhile. Half the pins were bent sideways( one of these "repair shops" had actually sent it back in that condition!). I took the metal tip of a drafting pencil with a small opening for the lead, and started straightening pins, one by one, row by row, until they were relatively straight. Then I took the blade of my pocketknife and went across each row aligning them back to where they belonged, first one row, then another, first one direction, then the other. It wasn't perfect, I could tell from the slight resistance when I pushed it back into the socket, but it went in and I locked it down. It had been a good drive for the couple, and they had hardly reached home, when I called to ask if there was anything else they needed ; )