[sdiy] chip socket style opinions...

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 20 January 2005 03:01 pm, James R. Coplin wrote:
> My local surplus supplier has some great milled, gold plated chip sockets
> cheap. They are the kind with the round hole for the chip legs.
>
> My question is, what are people's opinions on these versus the traditional
> leaf type contacts? Most of the chips are flat sided pins so it would seem
> the leaf style provide more surface contact. OTOH, I have had replace many
> of these type sockets over the years as they loose their spring and then
> they definitely don't have any contact.  I've never had to replace one of
> the milled, round holed sockets yet so they definitely seem to work.  What
> does everyone else think? Later!

Those are referred to as "machined contact" sockets,  and are definitely of 
higher quality than the ones that use stamped bits of sheet metal.  Which is 
also why they're more expensive...