18 Aug
2008
18 Aug
'08
2:09 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Through 1/8" PCB? It's easy enough to that
with 1/16" stuff, as
there's quite a bit of the "collar" that protrudes, but there's
scarcely anything at all sticking through with the thick board. That
tubing must have been tiny and thinwall.
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 did this to make my own 114-pin and 68-pin WW PGA sockets for the
MC68020 and MC68881, back in 1986 before those became readily available.
(And of course, they're no longer readily available.) I thought the
WW panel I knocked them out of was a 125 mil, but I could be mistaken.
If you just need individual WW sockets, I think you can get the Mill-Max
ones from Digikey.
Eric