[sdiy] Tip o' the day (Individual pins)

[MTG]

Keystone, Mill-Max and others sell the individual pins. Mouser and Digi-Key 
carry them and they are pretty cheap.

GB
www.musictechnologiesgroup.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David G. Dixon" <dixon at interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "'synth diy'" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:25 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Tip o' the day


> Hey Fellow Synth DIYers!
>
> Here's your handy-dandy tip of the day:
>
> Suck at design?  Tired of ruining PC boards from doing too much
> trial-and-error parts soldering and desoldering, trying to find just the
> right value which gives you that "sweet spot"?  Here's a handy tip:
>
> Sacrifice one or two machined-pin IC sockets by melting away the plastic
> substrate and recovering the little metal pins.  Then, simply solder these
> pins in where you think you might want to change the value of a component 
> on
> a PCB.  Now you can simply plug in different resistors/capacitors until 
> you
> find that magic combination.  When all is well, you can then desolder the
> pins (once) and replace them with the right components, or simply leave 
> them
> in.
>
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