From: Bryan Pope (bpope_at_wordstock.com)
Date: 2007-03-20 23:33:50
And thusly were the wise words spake by Ethan Dicks
>
> On 3/20/07, Jack Rubin <jack.rubin@ameritech.net> wrote:
> > You can also butt smaller sockets together - e.g. a 6 and a 12 - to create an 18 pin socket. It's a lot neater than chopping off the ends ;>)
>
> Absolutely - I've done it when I needed 28-pin "skinny-DIP" sockets (2
> x 14 pin). I think, though, that given the sizes that Unicorn
> Electronics has on hand that you won't find a pair of sockets that
> will do the trick without reducing them - of course, you could take an
> 8-pin and turn it into a 6-pin and a 14-pin into a 12-pin, then put
> the cut sides facing each other... that wouldn't look so bad. I've
> also extracted naked pins, stuck them on the bottom of another, whole,
> socket, then soldered in the bare pins. It works electrically, but
> you lose the mechanical stability of the socket frame.
>
Thanks for your suggestions, but I found an 18-pin machine tooled IC
socket at Jameco:
http://www.jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001&productId=65585
(Jameco Part # 65585)
Thanks,
Bryan
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