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Title: What are these solder pins called?
Post by: PeteAU on March 30, 2013, 08:49:24 am

Hi All,

I'm trying to repair an old board that has some broken pins. They are 0.1" spacing, solder on one side and plugs into a standard DIP socket on the other. They are similar to machined IC socket pins, except a little longer.

Can someone help identify them? What exactly are they called? I tried looking through farnell/futurlec/ebay but can't find a good match.

Title: Re: What are these solder pins called?
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on March 30, 2013, 10:48:05 am

"turned pin" should get you to the right section

Title: Re: What are these solder pins called?
Post by: digsys on March 30, 2013, 10:59:35 am

Haven't seen those exact ones, but are these what you mean? One end fits into a machine socket, other end used to solder to a PCB.

Title: Re: What are these solder pins called?
Post by: mikeselectricstuff on March 30, 2013, 12:26:45 pm

Probably easiest to get standard length ones as above, and stack up using sockets. The sockets also give you a more easily replaceable unit when   they get damaged again.

Title: Re: What are these solder pins called?
Post by: DaveW on March 30, 2013, 04:05:08 pm

Just go to the Samtec website and you can specify the exact length you want,

http://www.samtec.com/connectors/standard-board-to-board/100-inch-square-post/terminals.aspx (http://www.samtec.com/connectors/standard-board-to-board/100-inch-square-post/terminals.aspx)

They make all their connectors to order, so no worries about minimum order quantities or suchlike