On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 22:31:37 -0800, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

>...
> Hmm.  Does anyone make shouldered copper slugs that are carefully
> T-shaped to fit common PCB thicknesses for this purpose?  

I seem to remember Harwin making these, *many* moons ago.  They were made in a head-to-toe strip so you could insert the end one, solder it, and 
then break off the rest of the strip.  Much easier than trying to hold the darned things individually...

> Something with a 4mm*1.6mm shank and a thin 5mm*0.4mm head or so ?

I don't think they were as big as that, maybe 2.5mm x 1mm shank which was tapered, head about 2mm across, but I can't remember exactly.  They 
weren't so much for thermal use as to act as vias to allow non-PTH double sided boards to be hand-soldered.

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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