[Milsurplus] 7 - pin plugs for transistorizing tubes ?

[John Hutchins]

Grand-Pa always said you cant fit a square pin in round hole ?-}

On 12/6/2019 7:42 PM, Hubert Miller wrote:
>
> We recently had a discussion about solidstating tube equipment. One 
> poster talked about his project to transistorize the R-392.
>
> My kind of project – or at least, to think about.
> So I obtained some 7 pin plugs to build solidstate onto. I noted that 
> these plugs have square pins, though, not round. I found
>
> that these seat very hard. In fact, pushing the plug pretty hard, as 
> hard as I would really want or dare to, the plug only partially
>
> seated. Perhaps this is enough, but it doesn't do much for my 
> confidence in continued functioning. So my question is, what were
>
> these plugs intended to mate with ??? I find it hard to imagine that 
> you had to hammer them home. That would make them
>
> quite hard to ever remove?
>
> thanks-
>
> Hue Miller
>
>
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