That's perfectly fine, but removing the Socket ZIF with a heat gun and cleaning up 169 holes, hmm....... It's a painful memory. 😁

thanks, thankfully the socket location is not crowded with other components. Should be able to avoid problems if I dont rush my work.

Its too bad I have to go the extra step and get the socket off another motherboard, but no one sells 1/2/3 zif sockets anywhere.

looks like its a pretty important part of the motherboard to harvest if you are pulling spare parts.

I've removed some soldered 386 CPUs to place them in sockets, it can be done. I used a cheap but decent hot air + preheater station for it. And manual solder sucker to clean the holes.

The main problem with a socket though would be what it's made of - plastic. It's going to get soft and warp I think, it's quite hard to get the temperature just right and for a very short time. If I were to try this I would put some cheap 486 CPU into the socket and clamp it to provide some extra stiffness. The CPU should survive but it's best to assume the worst so put in some cheap SX or something that you won't miss if it does die.