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From: "Dave Mucha" <dave_mucha@...>
To: <Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 6:47 AM
Subject: [Homebrew_PCBs] Source for Pins instead of plated hole - revisited


> Hi All,
>
> I am looking for some method to plug a pre-made device into a hole to
> work like a plated thru hole.
>
> I remember some discussion of this last year and there was some
> supplier who evidently doesn't have a US supplier.
>
> What do you do for the one's and two's of getting both sides of a
> board to have a connection.
>
> This really only applies to things like DIP chips where one cannot
> solder under hte part.

With DIPs it's easy to solder the pins on the top and bottom of the board. I
often do this for ground connections with RF boards with a continuous ground
plane on the top.

It is just about possible to solder turned-pin sockets like this, but not
very neat.

Leon
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