Yeah, many people use those for this application and I even have some, both DIP and SIP, but the thickness of the pins on the ones I've been able to find is more than an IC leg and they don't fit well into machined pin sockets; are yours thin enough?
And I don't use the component carriers as is; I extract the pins while watching a baseball game or some other mindless distraction and then insert them from the top through the pcb, trimming off the forks after soldering. Admittedly, I wouldn't want to do 100 pcbs in one sitting that way... On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 11:40 AM RETRO Innovations <go4re...@go4retro.com> wrote: > On 2/27/2021 12:33 AM, MikeS wrote: > > > Also: > > > https://www.peconnectors.com/component-carriers/hws16187/ > > > Not trying to shill for profit, but I had lots of trouble finding > reasonably priced headers that did not have forked tops (like the above), > since I wanted to slide a PCB over the tops for projects I do. So, I buy > these in 1000s and offer them in the store. > > http://store.go4retro.com/ic-header/ > > They may yet be too tall (I think they are the same height as the PE > Connector option above, but not Stephen Adolph's super low height one). > > Jim > >
