From: jeroen@nospam.please   
      
   On 12/14/25 18:23, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:41:31 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 14/12/2025 5:30 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:37:30 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 14/12/2025 2:26 am, john larkin wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:20:46 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> On 13/12/2025 11:32 am, Christopher Howard wrote:   
   >>>>>>> I started playing around with deadbug and found that it is convenient   
   >>>>>>> and not as difficult as I imagined. However, I am wondering what to do   
   >>>>>>> as far as connectors, i.e., if I have a few lines coming in from off   
   the   
   >>>>>>> board, but I don't really want to clip them right onto the IC pins or   
   >>>>>>> component wires. Does somebody have any good ideas for me? Maybe is   
   >>>>>>> there some kind of terminal post out there that can be soldered onto   
   the   
   >>>>>>> ground plane, without actually making an electrical connection to it?   
   >>>>>>> Or, maybe one that could be screwed into the copper (after drilling)   
   >>>>>>> without making an electrical connection to it? Or maybe something else   
   >>>>>>> involving quick connectors or other nice connectors. I'm basically   
   >>>>>>> wondering what kind of connectors I could mount on the copper sheet   
   >>>>>>> without having the connector conducting to the copper.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> There was a solution to your problem - and I used to be able to find it   
   >>>>>> on the Newark/Element-14 website - where you drilled a roughly 2mm OD   
   >>>>>> hole in your sheet, and plugged in a circular lump of teflon carrying a   
   >>>>>> solderable pin.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> It could stand off a couple of kV and was great for setting up   
   >>>>>> photomultiplier dynode chains.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CJDGWRU   
   >>>>   
   >>>> A good bit bulkier than the part I had in mind. 4mm OD is twice the   
   >>>> diameter and four times the area.   
   >>>   
   >>> Well, God is pretty big.   
   >   
   > Are retroactive spelling corrections allowed?   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Since he's a product of human imagination, the sky's the limit, but the   
   >> delusion dates back to a time before we had any idea of quite how big   
   >> the universe is, or for that matter before we realised that the were   
   >> galaxies beyond the one we live in, or that we lived in one.   
   >   
   > Is the universe a product of our imagination too?   
   >   
   > That would solve several cosmological problems. Nothing exists.   
   >   
   >   
   > John Larkin   
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   Ah, a solipsist.   
      
   Jeroen Belleman   
      
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