[joebog1]

I cannot believe the negativity!!!.
Ortek, have you ever tried soldereing the strip in with one pin first, so its perfectly aligned?. then soldering the remaining pins ?.

SiriusHardware, ever tried painting a little dot where pin one is?, or putting the same dot between the top pins ?, like pin 1 and 14
1 and 16
1 and 18
1 and 24 etc etc .

You can use a fine whiteout corrector,
or a paint marker,
which added to the origional single purchase of SIL strips, is still cheaper than buying one or two or three DIPS that fit??

Joe

p.s. IF you need remove a single strip, simply cut it into bits with sharp sidecutters and remove it pin by pin.
Then remove the solder with Soderwick or a vacuum pump.

The reason I suggested single strips is its one purchase, not 20 or 30 to suit the chips involved