Wirewrap DIP sockets - any interest?

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Tue Feb 12 10:56:48 CST 2019


On 2/12/19 8:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
> On 02/11/2019 06:25 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote:
>> What is the gold value?
>>
>>
> ARRgh!  Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP sockets. Likely
> not worth the trouble of grinding them up to extract the gold from all
> that base metal.

Of late (the last 20 years or so), I've turned to drilling single-sided
PCB for socket patterns and using the push-in ww pins.  Makes for a much
neater project with a good ground plane.

--Chuck



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