good quality DIP sockets

[tony359]

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

[stj]

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

[tony359]

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?

[eccerr0r]

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.

[tony359]

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.