1B3GT Socket

[marty59]

Originally Posted by cdmarion

The original is a wafer socket that has four pins. Is there a trick to removing the extra pins?

Oh boy...I looked at my collection of wafer sockets to try to figure that out too and unless you can remove the rivets that hold that wafers together and have a tiny little rivet gun to put it back together with..(Yea Right!)

The only other handy TV I have at the moment is a Philco Predicta and it has all the pins on the socket but the unused ones are bent inward...Hmmm..

You may just have to bend them away, even cutting off the terminal ends would create a sharp edge that could create an arcing/corona problem.

But, some wafer style sockets depending on how they're made may have the terminal ends spaced differently. Find one with the most outward spacing and bend the unused terminals outward.

Or, at least with a ceramic socket you could remove the unused pins!