[Test-Equipment] Hickok pin plugs

[Avery Comarow]

Interesting suggestion. I had an inspiration a minute ago and dashed 
downstairs to check it out--my workshop calipers (hardly the equivalent of 
a micrometer, I grant you) suggest that the pin of an octal tube is the 
same diameter as the Hickok probe pin. An insulating body would have to be 
fashioned--maybe enlarge the hole in a conventional pin probe and add a 
drop of Super Glue. What do you think?

My Hickok is a 209A, blackface meter, chrome surround. I do have the active 
AC probe, although the wire is cracked and really needs to be replaced. I 
got the meter a couple of months ago and haven't gone through any kind of 
serious checkout. Lord, what a monster! How many service shops had room for 
it on the bench?

Cheers,
Avery W3AVE



At 11:14 PM 3/8/03 -0600, you wrote:
I had another random thought on this (as is much of my thinking).

You might take a look at a European miniature banana plug.  They're 2mm 
diameter, not quite 0.095" but closer than a pin plug, and just shy of 3/8" 
long.  Maybe a Pomona 5936, for example.  Six colors, and it will accept 
the fat 18 Ga. rubber test lead.  Being 'spring versus spring' it might 
feel a little mushy in the jack but it should grip OK.
http://www.pomonaelectronics.com/pdf/d5936_1_01.pdf

Hmmm ... might be on to a solution here.

Fred