X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to geda-user-bounces using -f X-Recipient: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-04-12_10:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1034 suspectscore=6 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1701120000 definitions=main-1704120114 From: "Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Apple-Mail=_DC6B1093-8ED9-46A4-ABA7-AD41AFF192B0" Message-id: <81DB765E-1423-471A-A958-C06F3A59350B@icloud.com> MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Subject: Re: [geda-user] [OT] Help finding solderless contact part Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:40:31 +0100 References:

<430B9126-23DB-41D0-A1D5-09C8B3B4647A AT icloud DOT com> <7BD76904-BB2A-4BFA-B27F-6B74531E5C5A AT icloud DOT com> To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <7BD76904-BB2A-4BFA-B27F-6B74531E5C5A@icloud.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) Reply-To: geda-user AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: geda-user AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk --Apple-Mail=_DC6B1093-8ED9-46A4-ABA7-AD41AFF192B0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > On 12 Apr 2017, at 14:10, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via = geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >=20 >=20 >> On 12 Apr 2017, at 13:18, Bob Paddock (graceindustries AT gmail DOT com) = [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >>=20 >>> Thanks, I=E2=80=99ve seen the Tag Connect before and really like it. = It=E2=80=99s not really what I=E2=80=99m looking for here though. >>=20 >> Perhaps related are the contacts shown in this image: >>=20 >> http://www.somerset.net/arm/radio_pictures/radio_shack_28-115.jpg >>=20 >>=20 >> I've wanted to find those for years. No idea what they are called. >> Anyone know? >>=20 >> Searching for 'spring' on Digikey gives an overwhelming number of >> spring-pins which is not what we want. >=20 >=20 > Those were actually my first choice! I remember having an electronics = set as a kid that used them; it had a bunch of discrete components that = you connected together by trapping wires in the springs to make = different circuits. I gave up looking since I couldn=E2=80=99t find a = specific reference to them. Very similar to this, in fact: = http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/75in1.jpg = = except mine wasn=E2=80=99t quite so fancy (no wooden box and I don=E2=80=99= t recall it having a meter). Regards, Chris =E2=80=94 Chris Smith --Apple-Mail=_DC6B1093-8ED9-46A4-ABA7-AD41AFF192B0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

On 12 Apr 2017, at 14:10, Chris Smith (space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

On 12 Apr 2017, at = 13:18, Bob Paddock (graceindustries AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

Thanks, I=E2=80=99ve = seen the Tag Connect before and really like it. It=E2=80=99s not = really what I=E2=80=99m looking for here though.

Perhaps related are the contacts = shown in this image:

http://www.somerset.net/arm/radio_pictures/radio_shack_28-115.j= pg

I've wanted to find = those for years. No idea what they are called.
Anyone = know?

Searching for 'spring' on Digikey = gives an overwhelming number of
spring-pins which is not = what we want.

Those were actually my first choice! I remember having = an electronics set as a kid that used them; it had a bunch of discrete = components that you connected together by trapping wires in the springs = to make different circuits. I gave up looking since I couldn=E2=80=99= t find a specific reference to them.

Very similar to this, in fact: http://www.bit-101.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/75in1.jp= g except mine wasn=E2=80=99t quite so fancy (no wooden box and = I don=E2=80=99t recall it having a meter).

Regards,

Chris
=E2=80=94
Chris Smith <space DOT dandy AT icloud DOT com>

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