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FrankB · 11th Feb 2019, 9:55 am

Delco Radio used "eyelets" or as they called them "Griplets" in their car radios.
What a nightmare to track intermittents down in those sets.
The eyelet would develop a microscopic solder crack between the PC land and the board.
A truly evil production method.
We used to just run a short piece of wire thru the "Griplet" and solder each end to the PC land. It took a lot of time, but no callbacks on intermittents.

11th Feb 2019, 9:55 am	#16
FrankB Heptode Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Olympia, Washington, USA. Posts: 664	Re: Through Hole PCB repairs with miniature eyelets: Delco Radio used "eyelets" or as they called them "Griplets" in their car radios. What a nightmare to track intermittents down in those sets. The eyelet would develop a microscopic solder crack between the PC land and the board. A truly evil production method. We used to just run a short piece of wire thru the "Griplet" and solder each end to the PC land. It took a lot of time, but no callbacks on intermittents.