On 2/12/19 8:30 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 02/11/2019 06:25 PM, Bill Degnan via cctalk wrote: >> What is the gold value? >> >> > ARRgh! Not more than a few milligrams per the usual DIP sockets. Likely > not worth the trouble of grinding them up to extract the gold from all > that base metal.
Of late (the last 20 years or so), I've turned to drilling single-sided PCB for socket patterns and using the push-in ww pins. Makes for a much neater project with a good ground plane. --Chuck