"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , Trevor Wilson
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**It's a pretty easy, albeit lengthy) job. There were a few companies
who used the same, ****ty sockets. Perreaux, from New Zealand, was
another. They were chosen for ease of assembly, not contact quality. The
engineers should have been shot.

FWIW I tend to use some of the gold-plated phono sockets sold by Maplin. I
tend to fit these to older equipment when the original sockets begin to
show signs of wear and unreliability. Also use them when I make up my own
boxes for various puposes. Can't recall the part numbers off-hand, though,
and have no idea if the insulators are PTFE.

**Easy way to tell: Stick your soldering iron (the hot end, not the cold
end) onto the plastic insulation. If you see smoke, it ain't PTFE.


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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au