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Annoyingly the IC sockets tend to oxidise if the board doesn’t! I’ve lost count of the number of them I’ve had to replace in my life. If it wasn’t for mechanic
by setquk 8y ago
Annoyingly the IC sockets tend to oxidise if the board doesn’t! I’ve lost count of the number of them I’ve had to replace in my life.
If it wasn’t for mechanical switches, pots, contacts and some dubious thermal design I imagine the kit would last for 100 years easy. I have 40-50 year old stuff on my bench in daily use.
- jacquesm 8y agoThere are sockets with gold plated turned inner pins, those do not oxidize. Cost a pretty penny though.
- setquk 8y agoYeah the Tek scopes were made before they came up with them though which is annoying. I usually replace them with the Harwin gold plated turned pin ones as I got a massive box off them from eBay for virtually nothing :)