11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
2:11 p.m.
From: "Patrick Finnegan"
On Thursday 11 September 2008, Jim Battle wrote:
This is similar to a thought that I had. Couldn't you just pop off
the plastic bit, insert a machine pin socket into the WW socket, and
add a bit of solder to secure electrical and mechanical connection
between the the machine pins and the WW socket? (You'd have to make
sure the WW pins are anchored firmly to the board first.)
You could try just inserting the machine pin socket (without the solder),
but I don't know that it would make much better contact than your chips
are doing.
Vince
You mustn't have read the thread.
This machine is wire wrapped. Replacing the sockets would be
tantamount to building the boards from scratch.
You're right that I haven't been following this thread... Still, my
comment stands. I don't think I'd consider it any more work to replace
WW ones and re-wrap them than if they were soldered onto a PCB
(especially if it has multiple layers), as long as you have some sort
of schematice/wire list. If you wanted to be creative, you could
probably cut the pins off the old sockets (or disassemble the sockets
to get the pins out), and figure out how to replace the sockets
(soldering new ones onto the old pins) without having to re-wrap
everything.