Here's a perfectly good IC socket. Then all of a sudden
it is attacked by a ravenous pair of diagonal cutters.
These pins are great for many uses:
xtal sockets or
componant sockets or
test points.
Componants can be soldered to the base of the pin. This can be
handy for placing a capacitor across your xtal to alter the frequency a bit
without actually having to solder directly to the xtal's leads.
I used a small piece that I cut off from a Ty-Wrap as an insulator
for the base of the xtal so that the xtal's case can't short on the pins.
I used an awl to punch the two holes in the Ty-Wrap for the xtal pins.
Here's a close-up from my Emtech rig where I used
a machined pin for a test-point. The instructions
suggested scraps of jumper wire, but using these pins
instead has proved to be a more rebust approach.
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