Homebrew PCBs

--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, YD <yd_br@...> wrote:
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> --- Leon Heller <leon.heller@...> wrote:
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> > ----- 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.>
yes tube sockets for PCB are still available. Both 9 pin and Octal. 
Try: http://www.partsconnexion.com/catalog/tubesockets.html other 
places have them too.