Actually, there's a better way :)  (getting rid of the solder is one of 
the pains of replacing those connectors.)

There are hundreds of kinds of pins for bed-o-nails fixtures, including 
ones that are meant to toich pins (cup varieties), ones that are meant 
to touch bare metal areas like SMT pads (castle-type, I think), and ones 
that are meant to poke into empty holes, which are basically cone shaped.

These are also available in sockets - you populate the socket into the 
text fixture board, and then you can choose which type of pin to insert, 
and can repair a bent/broken probe pin by just putting in a new one.

At my old company, test jig repairs were basically eliminated when we 
went to the socketed probe pins.

- Steve

Kyle wrote:

>Maybe this is a dumb point. Could you not flow solder on the contacts on 
>the board and let the user choose?
>
>Kyle
>
>Jon Elson wrote:
>  
>
>>I can't test it on my bed-of-nails text fixture without 
>>something soldered in those holes.  Maybe I should prominently 
>>list the screw-terminal option on my price list.  It sure is a 
>>pain of somebody has to pull the whole board out of their system 
>>and send it for repair.
>>Fortunately, that is extremely rare, unless they get hit by 
>>lightning.
>>
>>Jon
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