Requirement capture
Pitch, contact count, termination, plating, quantity, US destination, and requested timing are copied into one brief. Unknown cells stay blank. A blank cell is more useful than a guessed 0.50 mm pitch.
Desk method
LinkScope Sourcing 39 writes the connector brief, then factories answer it
The service name on this site is LinkScope Sourcing 39. It is an independent sourcing partner for business buyers who need an industrial board connector compared across factories. The people using the form are procurement staff, not a claim that this desk employs the factory that will mold the insulator.
What the desk is responsible for
Factory questions
The same brief goes to factories that choose to answer. Their datasheet, plating micrometres, and connector mating cycle number come back as their statements. This desk does not rebrand those statements as its own test lab.
Scope alignment
Quotes are parked until currency, Incoterm, and included hardware match. A target budget, if you add one, is stored only inside the requirement text after you submit. It is not a negotiated unit price.
What the desk will not say
There is no founding-year trophy on this page because none is on file for publication. There is no customer count. There is no claim of ISO 9001 held by LinkScope Sourcing 39. If a supplier offers an ISO 9001 certificate, ask which site and which year it covers, and keep it beside the exact part number.
Original-drawing buyers and second-source buyers disagree on purpose. The first group wants the host vendor geometry so later support uses one drawing. The second group will accept another footprint after pitch, keying, and electrical tables are checked. The desk can send both kinds of brief. It does not score the factories.
New and surplus lots are a second disagreement. New date codes often carry a readable plating note. Surplus can cover a discontinued 1.27 mm header if condition and remaining cycles are documented. Choosing surplus is a buyer decision about lifecycle risk, not a quality rank from this site.
Three boundaries follow every brief. Inventory is not held here. A shared pitch is not interoperability. Current, voltage, and ambient outside the drawing are unanswered until the factory writes a new line. Frequency range, insertion loss, and return loss are requested only when the pair is a high-speed or RF path. A power header does not need a VSWR plot.
The quote matrix shows the comparison columns. The BOM Workflow shows how several lines stay separate. The procurement brief is the long checklist.
Questions buyers ask about the desk
Do you stock industrial board connectors?
No. Labels on the product page are names for an inquiry. Availability, if any, is whatever the factory writes in a reply, and it can change before an order exists.
Can you approve a mate on our host?
No. Host fit, keying, and keep-out are confirmed by the buyer against the proposed drawing. A photograph of a similar housing is not that confirmation.
Will a budget number be treated as a target price already agreed?
No. Write the amount or range, the currency, and whether it is per piece or the whole order. Factories may ignore it, counter it, or ask for a quantity change. The desk does not convert it into a published rate.
Who sees the plating and cycle data?
The buyer who sent the brief, and the factories asked to answer it. Public pages do not list those files. Measurement accuracy stays inside the supplier report you receive.
Open a factory quote request
Use the form for a first brief. Include quantity, destination, and the delivery window you want discussed. Optional supplier preference is high-end, mid-range, budget, or undecided.