On 8/26/2011 1:32 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 26/08/2011 05:03, Dave Caroline wrote:
That redish plastic is a bit of "flexible
pcb" and is normally made to
order as the copper traces are internal to its structure when
finished, Ready made used to be available for straight wiring, we got
ours from Gore many years ago
In this case I don't think it is. Sometimes small pins like that are
sold mounted on Kapton tape to preserve the spacing, and make it
easier to assemble. I think that example is just pins that were sold
by the inch rather than the unit, and I suspect . I've certainly seen
things like that sold in electronics catalogues like Farnell's in the
past.
I can attest that it is not a flexible PCB. The tape had no tracks on
it, it was just a carrier for the pins. The interesting part (given the
examples shown so far in other messages), is that the pins were header
pins, not socket pins. I figured it was "by the inch", but was not sure
what it was called.
Others have suggested it is:
http://www.advanced.com/peelstart.html
Jim