Hi,
I recall the item you are looking\ufffd for (with strip of metal along top that was removed after soldering) but also like you cannot recall the name.\ufffd As far as I am aware they have not been made for many years.\ufffd Presumably most people went to proper sockets as they became much cheaper.
A thousands of those pins were way cheaper than proper sockets.\ufffd Sockets in those days were much higher with more plastic.
Would they have been made by Vero -now defunct?
Cheers,
Will
\ufffdThanks Harvey,
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Yeah I\ufffdve heard a lot of not so good things about these sorts of contacts.\ufffd The reason I went with them is because I have a vintage Mark-8 project I\ufffdm doing and they are typically what was used and have the right vintage look.\ufffd \ufffdIn fact, I have a number of vintage home-brew machines with two sided boards and they all used these.\ufffd The ones I bought were from ebay and they were called \ufffdmolex ic strip\ufffd \ufffd but I don\ufffdt think that\ufffds the right name and if I search under that now it comes up with the plastic topped ones, which I don\ufffdt want.
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I\ufffdm sure they must have a proper name somewhere.. there must still be millions of them out there \ufffd they were used a lot back in the day.\ufffd
Brad
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