Hi Ray,
I, too, have been sort of struggling with the same question for some
years now. I think of the terms 'phenolic wafer' socket, 'battery'
socket (as these were normally used on the old radio batteries as
you mention) and 'wafer type socket' when dealing with these. Two or
three layers of 'laminations' of phenolic sheet which was punched to
form is the construction. So, maybe 'laminated socket' could be a
search term? They were cheap compared to molded Bakelite or,
especially, ceramic, so worked out well for the consumer electronics
of the 60s/70s and back to the 30s when 'cheeply made' was important
to be competitive and reliability was not much of an issue.
HH Smith, Cinch-Jones and Keystone Electronics may have been one of
the original suppliers of these as this is the type of thing they
would have produced. Possibly Amphenol, too. Maybe on an OEM basis
so not often available in supplier catalogs.
HTH!
Regards,
-Chris F.
On 6/30/2025 2:40 PM, Ray Fantini via
Milsurplus wrote:
OK smart people, what is the proper name of
this type old socket? It’s a five pin socket that would have
been used on a battery pack. Building up a couple battery
packs for MAB radios and need more of these. Also similar to
what’s used on the battery pack on the BC-474 radios
(receiver) except that’s a four pin missing the one loan top
pin.
Ray F/KA3EKH
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