Just corresponding with a fellow about his pod that had some broken pins on the UUT connector end and I told him how I deal with that - I use "Sacrificial" IC sockets on the pins so the IC socket legs can be damaged, but the POD connector is not at risk. Also, if a pin is broken off simply strip the lead close to the UUT connector end and run a short jumper to the sacrificial IC socket. Figured I should share this with you good folks in case the idea hadn't occurred to you... John :-#)# -- John's Jukes Ltd. 2343 Main St., Vancouver, BC, Canada V5T 3C9 Call (604)872-5757 or Fax 872-2010 (Pinballs, Jukes, VideoGames) www.flippers.com "Old pinballers never die, they just flip out" _______________________________________________ Techtoolslist mailing list Techtoolslist@flippers.com http://seven.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/techtoolslist FTP site is: ftp://ttl.arcadetech.org/TTL/Test_Equipment Archive site: http://seven.pairlist.net/pipermail/techtoolslist/