[BC] More Moseley remote control stories...

[Robert Bowe]

The machine socket pins are also really nice for those pesky little 
TO-92's that can pop a little too easily and have hair thin traces/pads, 
as long as the capacitance change isn't too much!

-- 

Robert Bowe, CSRE
Director of Engineering
MBC Grand Broadcasting
Grand Junction, CO


PeterH5322 wrote:
>> Those "IC socket on a strip" things were made by Molex, I think. I tried
>> using them for a while, but the lack of a plastic body made the spring
>> contact with the chip leads get pretty bad after a while. Also, for a
>> while, TI was silver plating their leads. The silver would tarnish and
>> you'd have a bad connection. Not quite today's surface mount stuff!
> 
> I replace sockets with so-called "screw machine pin" sockets.
> 
> The price per pin is more than 1.5 cents, but who wants their station to 
> depend upon the reliability of an el-cheapo 24-cent socket?
> 
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