11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
9:53 a.m.
On 11 Sep 2008 at 12:24, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It sounds like the sockets you have are of the style
that never really
worked well. You may want to consider removing and replacing all of
the sockets, if you want the machine to work reliably, either with
turned-pin (machined) sockets, or cheap "wiper" blade sockets, both of
which are more reliable than what you have.
ISTR that Josh mentioned that this was a wire-wrap board. I recall
some of the WW sockets of the day, ones marketed by TI, for example,
were miserable things that also had the unhappy tendency for the
contact "fork" to detach from the wire-wrap pin, if the pin got
wiggled too much.
I don't want to think of the effort involved in replacing them.
Probably easier to construct a new board.
Cheers,
Chuck