/diy/ - Do It Yourself

First time removing an IC and installing a DIP socket. I do not understand why every tutorial I've seen drowns everything in flux, I did just fine without any.
Took me more to align the pins of my cheap shitty AliExpress EPROMs than installing the socket did, ended up putting my chip in another socket and double stacking it on to the installed socket. Does some sort of a chip pin alignment tool exist?