Seating Header Strips

[Searcher7]

I am working on a project involving some 40 Pin 2.54mm Male Double Row
Header Strips.

I need to securely position two of them in parallel with about an inch
between them.

The first thought was to get some PC board and drill holes for the
pins and solder the strips in, but since I don't have the precision
equipment needed to do this quickly I was wondering if there was
another relatively stiff and non conducting material I could use where
I might be able to seat the strips by pushing them into the material,
puncturing it without drilling. Perhaps a plastic of some sort.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Tim Wescott]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:33:48 -0700, Searcher7 wrote:

I am working on a project involving some 40 Pin 2.54mm Male Double Row
Header Strips.

I need to securely position two of them in parallel with about an inch
between them.

The first thought was to get some PC board and drill holes for the pins
and solder the strips in, but since I don't have the precision equipment
needed to do this quickly I was wondering if there was another
relatively stiff and non conducting material I could use where I might
be able to seat the strips by pushing them into the material, puncturing
it without drilling. Perhaps a plastic of some sort.

Get some pad-per-hole PC prototyping board.

Or, waltz down to your local Radio Shack and look over their prototyping
boards. They have some that exactly replicate the hole pattern in their
bread-boards, allowing you to transfer the circuit straight over. Those
holes are on a 100 mill grid, and the copper is easy to cut (with an X-
Acto knife) between the rows of your headers -- depending on the
dimensions you need, you may even be able to use adjoining copper to
solder useful stuff onto.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com

 

[Searcher7]

On Jun 24, 3:27 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.please> wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:33:48 -0700, Searcher7 wrote:
I am working on a project involving some 40 Pin 2.54mm Male Double Row
Header Strips.

I need to securely position two of them in parallel with about an inch
between them.

The first thought was to get some PC board and drill holes for the pins
and solder the strips in, but since I don't have the precision equipment
needed to do this quickly I was wondering if there was another
relatively stiff and non conducting material I could use where I might
be able to seat the strips by pushing them into the material, puncturing
it without drilling. Perhaps a plastic of some sort.

Get some pad-per-hole PC prototyping board.

Or, waltz down to your local Radio Shack and look over their prototyping
boards.  They have some that exactly replicate the hole pattern in their
bread-boards, allowing you to transfer the circuit straight over.  Those
holes are on a 100 mill grid, and the copper is easy to cut (with an X-
Acto knife) between the rows of your headers -- depending on the
dimensions you need, you may even be able to use adjoining copper to
solder useful stuff onto.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consultingwww.wescottdesign.com

Ok, I'll have to look into this.

I assume that the following is what you were referring to:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150818366912
http://www.ebay.com/itm/220741480288

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Tim Wescott]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:14:30 -0700, Searcher7 wrote:

On Jun 24, 3:27 pm, Tim Wescott <t...@seemywebsite.please> wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2012 11:33:48 -0700, Searcher7 wrote:
I am working on a project involving some 40 Pin 2.54mm Male Double
Row Header Strips.

I need to securely position two of them in parallel with about an
inch between them.

The first thought was to get some PC board and drill holes for the
pins and solder the strips in, but since I don't have the precision
equipment needed to do this quickly I was wondering if there was
another relatively stiff and non conducting material I could use
where I might be able to seat the strips by pushing them into the
material, puncturing it without drilling. Perhaps a plastic of some
sort.

Get some pad-per-hole PC prototyping board.

Or, waltz down to your local Radio Shack and look over their
prototyping boards.  They have some that exactly replicate the hole
pattern in their bread-boards, allowing you to transfer the circuit
straight over.  Those holes are on a 100 mill grid, and the copper is
easy to cut (with an X- Acto knife) between the rows of your headers --
depending on the dimensions you need, you may even be able to use
adjoining copper to solder useful stuff onto.

--
Tim Wescott Control system and signal processing
consultingwww.wescottdesign.com

Ok, I'll have to look into this.

I assume that the following is what you were referring to:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150818366912
http://www.ebay.com/itm/220741480288

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.

Yup.

--
Tim Wescott
Control system and signal processing consulting
www.wescottdesign.com