<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, 14:39 Iain McFadyen, <<a href="mailto:ki4hlv@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">ki4hlv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>I buy these in bags of 10, and put each one through a 2 step test before they get stored on the test bench: <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Step 1 is a moderate yank test to check the strength of the crimping and</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Step 2 is a basic continuity test,.... but I am generally looking for open circuits, so if the meter beeps and shows an Ohm or less then I consider it a pass.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">One batch of ten leads was discarded a few days after receipt, because the boots over the clips were so slippery that the croc clip underneath could not be held in an open position securely, and when one slipped out of my fingers while applying to a component in a circuit, the clip dropped onto the board and the exposed metal end of the clip made contact with live tracks causing a short. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">So far I have found 2 leads which separated in step 1 and a different 2 that separated in step 2.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And 10 that were discarded as too slippery.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Iain G4JMM</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, 14:20 CAROLINE MILLER TATE via Tacos, <<a href="mailto:tacos@amrad.org" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">tacos@amrad.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yeah, I’ve had some of these in the past. I always have my soldering iron running so I just soldered up a few leads at a time as I used them. I can live with milliohms.<br>
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> On 8 Nov 2024, at 05:56, Elton A Sanders <<a href="mailto:wb5mmb@pobox.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">wb5mmb@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What will China do to us next! Desecration of a treasured AMRAD object!<br>
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