1 May
2009
1 May
'09
12:49 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
I have no interest in crappy sockets, used, new, or free. :-P
Sounds like it
would work perfectly. The only issue I would have
with it is that the two machine pin sockets you would need cost
more than the 4164's do, and you have to purchase those sockets
new - whereas you can scavenge 4164's from junked XT clone boards. :)
Why can't you re-use used sockets?
With a heat gun or torch and a stack of old Apples,
you could get hundreds of really crappy sockets. But, surely if you look around,
you can find some boards with good machine pin sockets.
I reuse machined-pin sockets all the time. Last year, I pulled
several lbs of sockets from a stack of scrapped boards. I did find
that occasionally they were difficult to mount in new boards because
of solder build-up and bumps and tight through-holes, but it was
nothing that couldn't be gotten around.
Now that I have so many used sockets, I'll probably try to use them
first in projects and keep the fresh ones for stacked-socket uses
where I want solder-free pins.
-ethan