Does anyone recognize this female socket pin layout as a standard design of any kind?
I was looking at 5-pin CB Radio Microphone sockets, and they are similar, but not the same layout.
Also, the ones I saw did not have the "sixth" connector pin in the middle hole. Does that make this a 6 pin socket?
If it helps, these are vintage sockets most likely 1980s or earlier.
Best Answer
It's a bog-standard DIN connector. The thing in the middle is a rivet, not a pin. I suggest replacing it with something saner though. Any modern circular connector would perform better. Those DIN connector had one benefit: cheap and fairly low precision needed to make them, compared even to the venerable D-Sub connectors. Outside of extremely cost constrained consumer applications, I wouldn't use one. Much better connectors don't cost all that much more.