Here's a tip:
To ensure everything fits correctly and there's enough clearance to prevent bending the metal rails, try this approach:
Use light or spade-pin sockets (they have shorter pins) and solder them directly over the ICs instead of using machine sockets. Here's how to ensure a proper fit:
- First, remove the pin headers you've already soldered to the RAM card and clean the pads. Try to restore the original hole clearance (1 mm).
- Insert male-male headers into the sockets.
- Fit the RAM card, wiggling it slightly if necessary. Be patient!
- Once all the headers are fitted, you can solder them to the RAM card.
This method ensures that the RAM card will fit precisely again after detachment.
If you still want to use the machined sockets, that's okay, but I recommend shortening their pins enough so the socket touches the top of the IC. Otherwise, there might not be enough clearance to insert the LB into the rails, and you'll have to bend them. Also, I'm not sure if just a second row of pin headers at RP2 and RP3 will be sufficient if you keep those machine sockets without shortening their pins
