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    Hi there,

    Can anybody recommend a source of good quality DIP sockets please? I'm getting mine from Ebay and they feel very flimsy. If I plug a previously desoldered chip, the sockets get permanently deformed and the pins to solder through the PCB are very, very flimsy...

    Thanks!
    Tony

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    Re: good quality DIP sockets

    turned pin / machined pin sockets.
    RS or Rapid.
    https://www.rapidonline.com/dil-dual...-sockets-82699

    if your using pulled chips you need to get the pins smooth - i rub them gently across a file

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      #3
      Re: good quality DIP sockets

      Thanks appreciated.

      I've always felt a bit cautious about turned pin sockets as aren't they designed to accept round pins? I don't doubt they may work but logically a flat pin doesn't work very well in a round hole in my brain 🙂

      What's your thought about that?

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        #4
        Re: good quality DIP sockets

        They work fine, have seen/used tons of them for flat DIP pins and never had any issues with them. Don't try to plug TO-220 pins into them however, won't work.

        Only PGA pins are round anyway, and fortunately they use machined pins for those.

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          #5
          Re: good quality DIP sockets

          Thanks

          Yes I did a little research and I didn't know those sockets still have a spring mechanism inside so it won't matter whether the IC has round or flat pins.

          I guess I'll start using them. Thanks for the advice.

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