Stephen,
I guess I would consider myself as and old salt so I have run into this
problem more then I would chose to. One solution is yes the old dremel
and another is to put a socket in. You can buy them so the barrel of
course is round but the inner part is square.
Hope this helps>>
Salty
Stephen R. Gregory wrote:
> Hi ya'll!
>
> I'm pretty sure that one or two of you "ol' crusty" types (I mean that
> in a
> GOOD way), have run across this problem I have a time or two. I have
> this
> board I'm building in a quasi "prototype/pre-production" run that has
> a PTH
> rectifier diode installed vertically...some of you have may have
> guessed what
> my problem is already from my subject, the hole's too small.
> Lead diameter is right around .050" +/- a mil or two, guess what the
> hole size
> is? .050", +/- a mil or two...that's just peachy ain't it? It goes two
> times
> per board, and we gotta' build a hundred of these, maybe two hundred.
>
> So tell me, what have all you "old salts" done to make a square peg to
> fit in
> a round hole? I've had some REALLY GOOD suggestions from some
> "experts" here,
> one was to get a dremel and drill the hole out (sounds good to
> me!...snicker),
> another was to get a can of "Freeze-it" and spray the diode leads with
> it,
> then hurry up and stuff it in the hole before it warms up and
> expands...that
> sounded pretty keen too, except it's hard to hold the diodes when
> you're
> wearing mittens to keep from getting your digits frostbitten.
>
> So I told my "helpers" that I really appreciated their suggestions,
> but that I
> would like to give the technet a chance to offer some guidance to me,
> and that
> no-way were the suggestions from the TechNet going to be as good as
> theirs,
> but I wanted to see what popped up...and I would come to them if I
> needed
> anymore "help"...in other words, don't call me, I'll call you.
>
> I'm sure glad this is email, it would be kinda' hard to carry on this
> conversation with my tongue in my cheek like this...
>
> So, what's the verdict? Am I hosed? I looked around on the NET trying
> to find
> the same spec'd diode with smaller lead diameters, but no joy. The
> only two
> companies I found were Motorola and General Instruments, and they both
> listed
> the same thing that I have now.
>
> Is there any trick that any of you have done to make something like
> this work?
> I'm afraid if I don't figure something out, I'll be in mittens
> spraying diodes
> with freeze-it on the production floor...ya' gotta save me!
>
> -Steve "soon to be numb-fingers" Gregory-
>
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