R
Roy L. Fuchs
I keep a few chunks of cut-to-length pin strips for such purposes.
The 0.025" square pins plug snuggly into the proto boards, and make
nice, compact pluggable terminations. The matching strip sockets make
for cheap, small, temporary connectors.
High quality resistor leads and diode leads, etc. are also good to
collect for these purposes.
I keep ALL military resistor leads which I cut off while protoing a
new design. They are the absolute best. I keep ALL silver plated
diode leads.
I toss ALL ceramic capacitor leads as they all seem to have ferrous
content. They are magnetic, and rust as well. I do not understand why
the industry has decided to use this lead wire. It would seem that
they could attach a standard plated copper wire without issue.
Larger ceramic capacitors use good wire. I can't figure out why the
industry has decided that this one particular component should have
high quality materials used in them.