--- In
Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, YD <yd_br@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Leon Heller <leon.heller@...> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "adastra_2001" <adastra_2001@...>
> > To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 5:18 PM
> > Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Re: tubes
> >
> >
> > > --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com,
> > "derekhawkins" <eldata@>
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >Are there any free or low cost (<$300)
> > PCB/Schematic
> > >> >programs that have part libraries of tubes?
> > >>
> > >> Looks like there are some Eagle shared user tube
> > related libraries
> > >> here;
> > >>
> > >> http://www.cadsoftusa.com/download.htm
> > >>
> > >> Follow the Libraries link.
> > >>
> > >> --- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com,
> > "adastra_2001"
> > >> <adastra_2001@> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >>I thank you for the link regarding Eagle
> > Libraries. I have
> > > downloaded them and I will try them. As far as the
> > reluctance to make
> > > my own library parts, yes that has a little to do
> > with it as well as
> > > the difficulty for me to make the physical
> > measurements needed for a
> > > tube socket that will work in a PCB program.
> >
> > You should be able to find the relevant dimensions
> > for standard valve
> > sockets without too many problems.
> >
> > Leon
>
> Are there still sockets for PCBs? All I find around
> here are chassis mounts. The only time I ever made a
> tube equipment with a PCB I just placed the connecting
> pads at the edge. Another possibility would have been
> making the mounting hole in the PCB and surround it
> with the pads.
>
> - YD.
>
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I remember seeing a webpage site that used hot glue to make a socket
for a tube. Basically he made the socket by getting a plastic cube
cutting drilled holes for leads and then placed the tube into the cube
and pord hot glue in. He then removed the cube, and sucesfully made a
really crappy tube socket.