The only problem I can foresee is that the phenolic can be broken if the center pin is bent (somehow), thus rendering the plug nearly useless.
Teflon or ceramic insulator would seem to be much stronger, although even ceramic could crack and also become totally useless. Bob M. ====== --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 6/19/2007 03:42, you wrote: > >Thanks. Someone gave me that part number yesterday > but > >I didn't know 10 came for that price. Should last > me a > >lifetime, in fact I could probably resell 7 of > them. > > > >I think these are the ones I'm looking for. In fact > >they ARE still purchasable as of yesterday. I'm > just > >waiting for a few more parts to build up an order. > > > >The phenolic insulated ones were prevalent on the > old > >80D and 140D equipment, mainly as jumpers into the > >receiver. > > I picked up about a dozen of these as Dayton this > year. Most of them > appear to have phenolic insulation, but I doubt that > the insulation has any > significant effect due to the small amount & short > length of the connector, > hence not enough length to cause any impedance > transformation. > > Bob NO6B ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091
