AW: Sockets

[Haible Juergen]

	>These Re-an 1/4 sockets like used in their patchbays are available
from All
	>Electronics for $20 for 100.  Yep 20 cents each.  They are stereo
and have
	>a switch on all three connections (YEP even the ground)  I like
them.  The
	>housing is plastic, BUT I like that because you don't have to worry
about
	>isolating them.  I am using them in home brew switch panels and
have
	>absolutely no complaint.  They may not be the top notch switchcraft
stuff.
	>BUT, they do not bend with every insertion and are a hundred times
better
	>than the run of the mill crap you find at RS IMHO.

I use them all the time, and I like them, too. But I guess I pay too much
for
them - where do you get them cheap in Europe ?
As for being all plastic, isolation was the main reason why I chose them,
but one has to be careful with the spanner not to destroy the thread.
There's a version that can be soldered directly into the PCB, and the
6 pins of the stereo version are strong enough to hold a small (!) 
pcb only by fixing the sockets to the front (or back) panel.

JH.