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Old 20th Apr 2018, 12:36 pm   #36
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Default Re: Bush TP79 cassette

Great work, Martin.

I agree with you about soldering DIN plugs. The pins are quite close to one another and the plastic softens as soon as you apply an iron which means you can end up with the pins at jaunty angles. My way of avoiding this is to insert the plug into a scrap socket held in a vice (or similar) while doing the soldering.

The other problem is that terminals of the modern, Chinese ones don't take solder very well at all and often need to be abraded and tinned before you stand any chance of making a good connection. The older, German(?) ones didn't have this problem, though the pins were silver plated and often went horribly black.

This is before we even get onto the problem of manufacturers not adhering to the DIN wiring conventions or levels standards...

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