Tek used them too, and there were reliability problems.
Also, it's comparing a product that is designed to do the job applied
with a suitable press to a piece of wire jammed in there. A lot more
variables.
I wouldn't do it personally.
ST
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 12:02 AM, leon Heller<leon355@...> wrote:
> PCB eyelets were very popular 40 years ago before through-hole plating
> became commonplace, and were reliable enough. When I worked for Rank-Xerox
> they were used on all the PCBs in the copiers we made.
>
> Leon
>