I did use your sample Mike. Same as I had purchased off eBay (from China) based on our conversation(s).
They are still on eBay under item number: 171151222236 A little work to trim the heads off et al, but they fit just fine and do not cause damage to the socket. What I had on hand, round machined male pins, would have damaged the socket. I had both round machined and the square type. Both would've caused damage to the socket. The machined pins would fit the PCB, but leave no room for solder. The square just plan would not fit; e.g. square peg round hole. GregS <>< ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Stein" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2018 9:45:42 AM Subject: Re: [M100] diy pins Interesting and convenient but at 10 cents apiece I'll stick with the pins from DIP plugs/transition connectors that I've mentioned here several times and that I use to plug into an IC socket; same thickness as IC legs, $.0175 ea. I sent Greg a sample back in June when he was building a batch of adapters but I don't know whether he actually used them; they took so long to arrive that I think he used something else in the meantime. How would these pins allow adding a socket to a main ROM? You'd still have the thickness of two sockets, the (E)EPROM and the circuit board, no? But since you essentially get a free programming adapter with the DIP main ROM adapter on Oshpark I haven't seen the lack of a socket as a real problem. m
