[ale] Local source for pin-jumper?

[Alex Carver]

Or just jump on Amazon and buy 100+ of them for $5-10. In colors, too!

On 2023-01-09 12:00, Charles Shapiro via Ale wrote:
> If it was me ( which it's not), I'd go to Micro Center and buy a strip of
> female 2.54mm connectors and cobble
> one together with solder and a tiny piece of wire on the solder end.
> Assuming of course that your case has clearance for it.  It'd be neater
> looking than a your current setup, although probly not by much. I am pretty
> sure the hobby part of the store has such exotica.
> -- CHS
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 1:24 PM Chuck Payne via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
>> Geez,
>>
>> I got few of those parts bucket, along like 9 million screws, but I am out
>> here Dacula.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 12:19 PM Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've been playing with a board (building an embedded Linux system) and
>>> needed to swap some pin jumpers to convert the external serial interface
>>> from RS485 to RS232.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately one of the actual jumpers broke..  I pulled it out and
>>> noticed it was just a piece of plastic; there was no metal conductor
>>> inside!  OOPS.
>>> I have NO IDEA where that little piece of metal got to.
>>>
>>> I solved my immediate problem by using a long F-F pin-connector wire, but
>>> I'd like to find a local/convenient source for one (or a handful) of those
>>> small suckers.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions in/around the Sandy Springs area?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -derek
>>>
>>> --
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>>
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