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Hi,

I recall the item you are looking  for (with strip of metal along top that was removed after soldering) but also like you cannot recall the name.  As far as I am aware they have not been made for many years.  Presumably most people went to proper sockets as they became much cheaper.

A thousands of those pins were way cheaper than proper sockets.  Sockets in those days were much higher with more plastic.

Would they have been made by Vero -now defunct?

Cheers,

Will

 

Thanks Harvey,

 

Yeah I’ve heard a lot of not so good things about these sorts of contacts.  The reason I went with them is because I have a vintage Mark-8 project I’m doing and they are typically what was used and have the right vintage look.   In fact, I have a number of vintage home-brew machines with two sided boards and they all used these.  The ones I bought were from ebay and they were called ‘molex ic strip’ – but I don’t think that’s the right name and if I search under that now it comes up with the plastic topped ones, which I don’t want.

 

I’m sure they must have a proper name somewhere.. there must still be millions of them out there – they were used a lot back in the day. 

Brad

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