13 Sep
2013
13 Sep
'13
12:12 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013, Diane Bruce wrote:
Decent sockets work well for soldering. The side swipe
are hideous.
+1
People who have had a bad experience with crappy sockets, such as TRS80
and Apple, tend to have a hard time trusting sockets after that.
My cousin (David Ungar) introduced me to Augat turned-pin sockets. I
bought a bare generic 5160 motherboard and populated it entirely with
Augat sockets. Finally learned how to solder. Later, I learned that
there wasn't much point in socketing the resistor packs, . . .
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com