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Pink bag day for me today, which allowed me to try out this hack someone here mentioned.

I adapted some Tayda 2 row sockets into ghetto transistor sockets. I still have a couple of the ruinously expensive deluxe luxury sockets to compare, and the pins line up perfectly.

EDIT: I gently but forcefully pushed the redundant pins out by gripping them with needle nosed pliers. Once you get a bit out you can grab it with the pliers and pull.
 

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Bricksnbeatles said:
Some downward pressure into the groove on each side with a box cutter. Doesn’t cut right thru, but it starts enough of a split to direct a clean break
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Works well on the single rows, the doubles are a lot thicker. Some kind of micro-abrasive saw would be better. If such things existed for reasonable sums of money.

EDIT: I tried scoring the top and bottom as well as the sides, and got a much cleaner break.
 
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DAJE said:
Works well on the single rows, the doubles are a lot thicker. Some kind of micro-abrasive saw would be better. If such things existed for reasonable sums of money.
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Try a jewelers saw. Theyre cheap, I found one for 20 bucks id imagine if your only trying to cut the double row sockets this would be sufficient!
 
steviejr92 said:
Try a jewelers saw. Theyre cheap, I found one for 20 bucks id imagine if your only trying to cut the double row sockets this would be sufficient!
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Good tip, thanks. I did a bit of a search but wasn't too sure of what they're called. Something like that would be useful enough to be worth the price, while not taking up too much space.
 
DAJE said:
Good tip, thanks. I did a bit of a search but wasn't too sure of what they're called. Something like that would be useful enough to be worth the price, while not taking up too much space.
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I need to get myself one. Its a very handy tool to have. I just recently saw a tip to use it for making relief cuts when bending aluminum.
 
DAJE said:
Following on from above, does anyone have a tip for breaking the socket thing into useful sections cleanly? As you can see, mine will work but they look a bit shabby.

Nonetheless, 13 for US 58c is a lot more affordable than US$1.75 each at Tayda for TO-5 sockets.
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Okay, I'm really anal about stuff, and as a former model maker, hated the messy ends, no matter how cleanly I tried cutting them with my nippers. So I made a miniature miter box for use with an Xacto saw blade. Xacto does make a small aluminum mitre box, but it was easy for me to put one together from some scrap plastic.
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