30 May
2007
30 May
'07
11:37 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
Not to mention that making a connector pin out of solid
gold is
*stupid*. Gold has rather bad mechanical strength as compared to more
conventional metals, and is expensive; its only real benefit is its
corrosion resistance, and all you need for that is gold plating.
Tony Duell wrote:
I would be very suprised if any conenctor pins are
'solid gold' for 2
good reasons. The first is mechanical, gold is too soft a metal for that
sort of thing. The second is economic, the reason for using gold is to
prevent corroosion, and plating is as good as solid for that, and a lot
cheaper.
Somebody wisened up ..the auction has been delisted.
Those pins were from an early type of PCB edge connector. They were quite nice
in practice, and somewhat novel in that it's a unisex (hermaphroditic?)
design: they mate with another pin of the same shape (the mounting area
differs, but not the mating area).