17 Feb
2010
17 Feb
'10
10:37 p.m.
On 17 Feb 2010 at 21:04, Tony Duell wrote:
Indeed. Wire-wrapping is very relaible and quick to
do. The only
downside is the price of the wire-wrap sockets.
I don't bother with sockets. I use the push-in socket pins
scavenged from old prototyping boards. One good-sized board will
keep you in pins for a very long time. If I'm using a PLCC package,
I take a standard through-hole PLCC socket and push the socket tails
into the wire-wrap pin sockets. A bit of glue holds it fast to the
PCB.
The downside is that the gold bugs see all those shiny pins and want
to scavenge them for metal content, so they're getting harder to
find.
--Chuck