> I ended up having better luck with simpler clips that have a single physical pin straight through, such that the header pitch is the same as the component. Th

> I ended up having better luck with simpler clips that have a single physical pin straight through, such that the header pitch is the same as the component. Then I bent the pins to the side in an alternating pattern, to give enough room to attach my individual wires. I have had 100% the opposite experience :D. For whatever reason, the cheap clips quickly develop intermittent faults on some number of wires or the pin deforms hopelessly. You can tell the problem is getting worse when you have to maintain more pressure to hold the clip in place or do multiple reads and confirm that the sha1 hash of the dump file matches for the majority of reads!