Bob Blick wrote:
> If you can accomodate a little real estate on an edge of the board,
> shove it into an edge connector. If part of the edge connector
> interferes with a component on the board, grind away the edge connector
> where it conflicts and pull out any unneeded pins.

I have also used a DIP-clip (spring loaded clip that clamps onto a 14- or
16-pin DIP package from above for debugging access) in a similar way. I
just bend the contacts that I need toward the center of the clip until they
touch when the clip is fully closed. When clamped to the edge of a PCB, I
get quite nice contact pressure.

In this case, the target board had been designed so that a 14-pin, 2-row,
0.100" header could be soldered edge-wise on the board, with half the
connections "surface soldered" on each side. I needed to make contact with
the pads for this connector after it had been removed, and the DIP-clip
worked perfectly.

-- Dave Tweed
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