Looking for something I can plug a 5mm LED into.

[fyrstormer]

Hours of searching without having the slightest clue what they were called eventually revealed something called "flea clips", but I want the smallest ones I can possibly find -- I want ones that have a square profile and are just barely big enough for the leads on a 5mm LED to fit into. I'm thinking like the size of the electrical contacts inside a CPU socket. Anyone know where I can find loose flea clips that small?

 

[Illum]

If you do find them I'd imagine the minimum order might be on the grounds of 1000:candle:

I have no idea what your referring to...well, I do...but not that CPU pin small

 

[fyrstormer]

I guess 5mm LED leads are somewhat bigger than CPU pins, but I know they're the same size as the pins used in motherboard headers. There has to be something out there that has a solderable brass pin on one end and a socket small enough to hold a 5mm LED lead tightly on the other end.

I really don't care if I have to buy a bag of 1000 of them. It would still only take up as much space as a wad of dollar bills.

 

[Th232]

Dunno if these are the size you want, but in our lab we buy a strip of these then cut them to the required size.

You probably don't want to buy it from Australia, so when you're searching, keywords are "socket" "SIP" and "PC board".

 

[balou]

You could also buy DIP sockets and cut them apart. Advantage over SIP sockets is that they're easier to find.

 

[bshanahan14rulz]

IDE hard drive connectors, dremel a pair off of it and sand it down.

*the connectors on the big ribbon cables, if you have one sitting around

 

[fyrstormer]

The reason I need bare ones is because I can't spare the room for the plastic shrouding. Those SIP connectors might just be the ticket though, if I can pull the pins out of the plastic.

 

[balou]

You can get bare ones too. Try farnell.com, digikey.com or mouser.com.