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Originally Posted by WISCOJIM
I had to read your reply twice to make sure I understood it correctly. Are you serious? Have you ever looked inside a radio or TV before? Ever looked at pictures of chassis right here in this forum?
Of course they were riveted in place.
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Most molded plastic sockets if the metal contacts wore out or the solder tab broke off you could replace individual metal contacts by removing all soldered leads and solder, flattening the contact and pushing it up from the bottom...I've done this many times. The plastic sockets only ever needed a full socket replacement if the plastic insulator arced through or was otherwise severely damaged....Which is pretty rare even among socket failures which are themselves rare.
The phenolic wafer sockets weren't as serviceable but were fairly reliable. The only times I have had to replace them were when in a set that had been so soaked in rodent urine that the socket insulator had become conductive and was burning from the B+ current, and a couple of times I wasn't gentle enough and ripped a solder lug off...most repairmen back then favored J-hooks or snipping the old lead and tack soldering the new one to the surface of the existing solder blob so they wouldn't rip lugs off a socket under their normal practices.