Going to submit to Boardsort as Connectors. Why not? Yeah. Ebay. But. For me. Just isn't there. Comments. Appreciated.
Here to learn like everybody else.

I’m with you. Worth more as clean gold pins but my time is worth more than the effort.

_________________
42 6F 61 72 64 73 6F 72 74 2E 63 6F 6D

Thanks for the response. I actually experimented with a few methods to remove the gold pins effectively. Heat. Hoping the pin would loosen up. Pressure. (Using a vice to push pins through) Cutting(using small dikes). Just too frustrating. Plastic burns before melting. Pins too delicate for vice. Plastic explodes it's brittle. Also sticks like glue to the pin. Soooo. Those sockets are going Connectors. As a sidenote. I got time. I'm fully retired. But. Forget it with those sockets.
Here to learn like everybody else.

Pins I've seen similar to these often have ridges on the pin so that when the plastic is molded over it locks the pins in place. Makes pressing or pulling pretty hopeless.

_________________
Here to learn more so I can recycle more
My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort

When you look at the temperature specs on a typical IC socket. As in operating temperature. Including resistance to being soldered. And. Considering the CPU or other device inserted into it. The stress involved is ballistic. I only share this as we talk plastic sockets. They are not plastic as we know normally. Not like a sandwich bag wrapper. I always remember when Pentium 5 came out. It was said. "You can fry an egg on it." So. I wasn't surprised when the posted sockets are unforgiving to efforts to "give up" thier gold pins. When your talking 300 to 500 degrees fahrenheit for IC sockets to withstand. Yep. Forget the pins. Connectors they are.
Here to learn like everybody else.