Homebrew PCBs

I'm breaking in here midthread.  If it's high profile you're wanting, can
you use a high profile socket.  I needed to raise some dis switches up to
let their actuators poke out from the cabinet's top.  I used a very high
profile dip socket and plugged the dip switches in to that.

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>Another thing you can do, if space is not terribly critical is use 
>"wire-wrap" sockets and a suitable (discardable) spacer to hold the socket-body maybe 
>0.2" off the top of the board.  Solder diagonal corners, then check if "level", 
>and then solder the alternate diagonal corners.  THEN solder all on the 
>bottom, and then all on the top (at least those that DO connect on top).  Clip off 
>the excess 0.025" pins on the bottom and admire your work!  BE SURE you get 
>that socket's "pin 1"-end oriented properly!  I did a "repair" for a CNC shop, 
>once, where I goofed, and soldered a socket in backwards.  But at least I caught 
>this before I "powered up", and, as DIP's are symmetrical, I just put it in 
>[deleted]-end-to, and all was fine, but the "notch" was on the wrong end.  Had 
>to "hide" that best I could.  
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