UNIBUS backplane finger contact repair

[Jon Elson]

On 05/13/2015 09:24 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I have a very strong suspicion that the answer to this is going to be 'no',
> but I figured I'd do due diligence and ask...
>
> I have a backplane (one of the rodent barn group) which has a couple of finger
> contacts in the backplane missing. (Two came out while I was cleaning it - and
> I wasn't being hard on them, they must have been eaten away by the same kind
> of chemical action that lifted traces off the boards.)
>
> Is there any way to replace broken/missing finger contacts?
On some of the connectors, the pins are pressed in from the 
card side.  So, if you unsoldered or unwrapped the pin side, 
you could, in theory, press the remains of the old contact 
out and press in a new contact pin.  i sold a box of 50 
unused Winchester double-wide DEC connectors on eBay some 
years ago.  No idea where they are now.

Jon