terminal posts / connectors for deadbug

My main factory has a couple of proper machine shop with gigantic metal shear/brake things, one of which we are allowed to use for FR4. It clamps then slices so makes beautiful straight cuts with clean edges. But my satellite design center (where I mostly work) doesn't have room for those sorts of monsters.

The little Amazon shears are fine for chopping bits of FR4, for Demel'd prototypes, or for separating a multilayer PCB that has multiple experiments.

We recently persuaded JLCPCB to make us a bunch of gold-plated copperclad FR4. PCB houses never understand what we want, and then charge a lot for a few micro-inches of gold.

John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics

Yes, a lug strip seems like it might be a good solution, though they are a bit on the big side, as you say.

Are you able to link to a photographic example of this?

You can use a socket strip or header strip glued on its side.

Lengths of pins and whether M-M or M-F are choices available to you. As is connector pitch.

Decide if you want them as test points or connection points based on what you want to mate with it.

It's just this through-plated prototype board, I break a bit off and add pin headers on one side and wires on the other plus couple of stiff wires for mechanical attachment. The holes are plated through so they are mechanically very strong, but the rows of holes form a strees cocentration so it can be snapped using pliers etc.

Example

Okay, thank you, I get it now. Using the protoboard in this way, I can see how this opens up a lot of possibilities for mounting various interfaces or ICs.