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Title: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: W2PFY on August 16, 2014, 07:47:59 PM
I can't remember what those connectors, terminals  are called. Perhaps a Farmsworth? They are pressed down and a wire is inserted into the middle of it. You can also use them for making a grid pin connector for a 100TH or 250TH tube. They were used on many dry batteries ans sometimes used with crystal sets etc?

If you know what I am talking about, let me know what I am talking about?


Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: n2bc on August 16, 2014, 07:57:39 PM
Fahnestock clip


Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: W2PFY on August 16, 2014, 09:02:34 PM
That is it! Many thanks ;D ;D ;D


Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: KL7OF on August 17, 2014, 12:42:38 AM
when I was a kid I thought the Fahnestock clip was a marvelous invention.....Imagine hooking wires up without soldering......I still have a
few in use around here...There are Aluminum caps similar to a plate cap that fit the grid pins of the TH series tubes...They look cool with the fins ......


Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: AJ1G on August 17, 2014, 09:44:38 AM
If you ever wondered how they got their name:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahnestock_clip


Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: W2PFY on August 20, 2014, 02:08:36 PM
There was a big time banker that died in 1914 of the same name. I wonder how that electrical company got its name? "Fahnestock Electric Co"  It looks as if the company also made machines to stamp these and other electrical parts of the day which was around 1907. They must have made billions of connectors!



Title: Re: NAME OF CONNECTOR?
Post by: KA0HCP on August 20, 2014, 05:34:52 PM
As mentioned in the last paragraph, we used giant Fahnestock clips to rig the mechanical arming wires on bombs and weapons on the P-3C Orion.  It was a pretty clever arrangement.
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