I have been straightening CPU pins...
I had a catastrophic failure in a stack of boxes in one of my storage units... The worst part is that at the top of the stack there were lots of boxes and trays with CPUs and they diddnt really like the concrete floor very much.
About 100 Socket 7 CPUs with bent pins and about 50 486 CPUs with bent pins was the the bulk of the damage. Luckily the socket 754, 939 and 940 CPUs that was also in the stack was somewhat protected by pink foam in their boxes and therefore only got a few slightly bent pins at the edges compared to some Socket 7 and 486 CPUs with pins bent 90 degrees, a few even got small pieces of ceramic chipped off the edges.
After spending many hours aligning pins only a single pin on a AMD 5x86pr75 ended up broken/missing and that one must have broken of during the fall... or well by the sudden contact with the hard stuff just after... The pin is E16 and it's a VCC pin in the Socket-1 pinout buf it's called BOFFa in the Socket-3 pinout, with luck it isn't very important.
It's a bit annoying that scores of CPUs with perfect pins now have less than perfect pins... Getting punished for building towers reaching for the sky isn't anything new though, at least I found the motherboard I was looking for...
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.