Male/female pin converter?

Hi everyone,

First, this is my first post in element14 so I don't know if there is a better subforum for my question - if there is, then mods please move it there.

I'm trying to find some pin converters, by which I mean something which will change a male pin into a female socket. This is primarily for stacking shield boards on top of a microcontroller board when I've got the wrong sense pins soldered in and don't want to change them. For example, I have two boards which I want to stack, both have male pins, so how do I connect them? I've looked around a lot of sites trying to find these but haven't succeeded yet and when I was thinking of where I could ask element14 seemed like the logical choice.

Helpful suggestions much appreciated.

Cheers

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colporteur over 5 years ago in reply to luislabmo

Sounds like a voice of experience.

My soldering career is long behind me. I assume the process of solder sucking each pin individually with a good vacuum device doesn't work?

I seem to recall this was the process for removing IC's. Now the pin on an IC moves slightly when pressure is applied. Maybe not so much with a connector leaving solder behind that binds.
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jw0752 over 5 years ago in reply to luislabmo

Thanks Luis,

I too have been searching for the double male headers for a long time. I had actually given up but your post identifying the vendor Pololu allowed me to find some. I have placed my order and I am happy.

John
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luislabmo over 5 years ago in reply to colporteur

In my experience, it requires a good soldering pump to do it without extra effort -like you said. The popular solder pumps (the ones with nylon tip that most people have) will probably give you extra work

Luis
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colporteur over 5 years ago in reply to luislabmo

Those blue plastic single action pumps are fine for a small job but for professional solder removal a more robust device with a steady vacuum is required.

I do like the idea of cropping the header before removal. Definitely make it easier removing a pin at a time.
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