Very nice looking adapters though. I am looking at some pins that have a slight shoulder which will (hopefully) mitigate against them being pushed through the board. - Richard
On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 12:11:57 UTC Dekatron42 wrote: > I haven't used that exact type of pins but I tried a similar type and had > some problems with them when they were subjected to pressure from the side > which resulted in them coming loose. I had to minimize the hole diameter in > the circuit board almost to a press-fit size so they couldn't flex/bend but > then I also got some problems with a few that were pushed up when inserted > as I guess that there was to little solder fastening them - a proper > press-fit pin would have been better for my case but I didn't find any that > fit my needs. It could probably have been done better but I didn't have the > space nor the time to experiment much more so I decided to go with longer > pins and two circuit boards on top of each other. I ended up buying cheap > gilded longer pins without the head from eBay (Chinese seller), similar to > the ones used in the adapter below. > > [image: Tube-pins.jpg] > > On Thursday, 10 March 2022 at 06:17:28 UTC+1 Richard Scales wrote: > >> Hello everyone. >> >> I want to make a board that plugs in to a tube socket which has minimal >> height on the 'top' side. >> >> The image is from a 'Nail Head' pin from Millmax. >> >> Has anyone used these or anything similar? >> >> - Richard >> [image: NailHead.JPG] >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/fd7323e6-36c1-4fa0-aa67-8cc8ea15bb42n%40googlegroups.com.
