[Test-Equipment] Hickok pin plugs

[Fred Olsen]

Avery Comarow wrote:

> Anybody have a few extras of the short pin plugs Hickok used on its tube 
> testers (for the grid/plate lead) and old meters (like the 209 VTVM)?

Sorry, Avery, but the answer would be "good luck".


> Were they proprietary? The pins are bigger around but shorter than 
> so-called pin plugs and smaller than banana plugs.

Not proprietary, they're an old Amphenol version of a pin plug.  IIRC, 
the pins are about 0.095" (versus the standard 0.080) and about 3/8" long.
They and the corresponding jacks are long since NLA, and I don't think 
WPI produces them.  You might carefully tighten your pin jacks with an 
appropriate tool, a scribe or similar, to better accommodate standard 
pin plugs; or get fancy and solder a brass sleeve around the plugs.

Best of luck,
Fred


> I could use about half a dozen for various test leads.

As could I.  ;<)
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