At 10:18 PM 2/28/03 +0200, Peter L. Peres wrote: >If you want to be very cheap you can use high quality turned IC socket >pins. They work both as sockets and as plugs. That and shrink tubing and a >bit of epoxy on the cased part and you have a small and fairly good >connector. It is probably good for 200 or more insertions. One other thought regarding this - you need 2 conductors. Use 3 pins for each sex and connect the 2 outside pins together. That way it doesn't matter which way you plug it in. dwayne -- Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax Celebrating 19 years of Engineering Innovation (1984 - 2003) .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .- `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' `-' Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to this email address. This message neither grants consent to receive unsolicited commercial email nor is intended to solicit commercial email. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu