11 Sep
2008
11 Sep
'08
9:41 a.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Wednesday 10 September 2008, Josh Dersch wrote:
You mustn't have read the thread.
This machine is wire wrapped. Replacing the sockets would be tantamount
to building the boards from scratch.
good contact... this is going to be an ordeal :).
The sockets
themselves are going to be a problem -- they have gold contacts (I
_think_) but the actual socket doesn't expose any accessible metal
surface -- the pins go through a hole (that's just barely larger than
a pin) in the plastic sheath and beneath that are the contacts.
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.
Pat