18 Aug
2008
18 Aug
'08
2:41 p.m.
On 18 Aug 2008 at 14:09, Eric Smith wrote:
I think the tubing I used was 1/8" OD, with about
20 mil wall thickness.
I just slid it over the wire-wrap tail, and hit it with the hammer.
If there isn't any shoulder of the socket sticking through the bottom of
the board, it must be a lot different than the ones I was dealing with.
I can pop the pins out of 1/16" PCB using just a wirewrap bit, but
1/8" OD tubing is *way* too thick to do the job on the 1/8" stock.
There's maybe .020" of the collar that protrudes on the wiring side--
not enough to get the pin punched through.
I've got a few boards that were used for 10K series ECL (16 pin DIPs--
3 rows of 8 pins separated by space from the next). I'm never going
to use those as-is, so I thought I'd salvage the huge pile of unused
pins on them.
I like to set my own pins on projects (I use a modified spring-loaded
center punch). Looks neat and is less visually confusing from the
wiring side than the "bed of nails" of a stock WW prototype board--
and easily accomodates things like TQFP adapter boards and PLCC
sockets.
Thanks,
Chuck