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A MINIATURE ELECTRICAL TEST CLIP FOR MAKING A CONNECTION TO A WIRE INCLUDING IN COMBINATION, A RIGID CONDUCTIVE MEMBER HAVING AN ELONGATED POST PORTION OF SQUARE CROSS SECTION WITH SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT SIDES AND A REDUCED EXTERNALLY THREADED LOWER STEM PORTION, WITH THE JUNCTION OF SAID POST PORTION AND SAID STEM PORTION FORMING A SHOULDER THEREBETWEEN, INTERNALLY THREADED MOUNTING MEANS ON SAID STEM PORTION, AND A GENERALLY L-SHAPED CONDUCTIVE SHEET METAL SPRING MEMBER HAVING A BOWED BASE PORTION AND A CONTACT PORTION, SAID BASE PORTION HAVING A HOLE THERETHROUGH ADAPTED TO RECEIVE SAID THREADED STEM PORTION FOR MOUNTING SAID SPRING MEMBER THEREON BETWEEN SAID SHOULDER AND SAID MOUNTING MEANS, WITH SAID BOWED BASE PORTION CONVEXLY DISPOSED AGAINST SAID SHOULDER AND SAID CONTACT PORTION EXTENDING UPWARDLY ALONG SAID POST PORTION, SAID BOWED BASE PORTION OF SAID RESILIENT MEMBER BEING CLAMPED AND FLEXED BETWEEN SAID SHOULDER AND SAID MOUNTING MEANS TO URGE SAID CONTACT PORTION OF SAID SPRING MEMBER TOWARDS ONE FLAT SIDE OF SAID POST PORTION WITH A FORCE INVERSELY PROPORTIONAL TO THE DISTANCE BETWEEN SAID SHOULDER AND SAID MOUNTING MEANS, SAID CONTACT PORTION INCLUDING A DEPRESSED PORTION FORMING A PROJECTION LYING AGAINST SAID FLAT SIDE OF SAID POST PORTION AND FURTHER INCLUDING AN UPPER FLAREDOUT PORTION AT THE UPPER END THEREOF NORMALLY ENGAGING SAID POST PORTION WITH THE PART OF SAID CONTACT PORTION BETWEEN SAID DEPRESSED PORTION AND SAID FLARED-OUT PORTION BEING SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT, SO THAT A WIRE INSERTED DOWNWARDLY BETWEEN SAID SIDE OF SAID POST PORTION AND SAID FLARED-OUT PORTION OF SAID SPRING MEMBER FLEXES SAID CONTACT PORTION AWAY FROM SAID POST PORTION AND THE WIRE IS THEN HELD IN RESILIENT ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN SAID FLAT SIDE OF SAID POST PORTION AND SAID SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT PART OF SAID CONTACT PORTION, WITH SAID PROJECTION FORMED BY SAID DEPRESSED PORTION OF SAID CONTACT PORTION UNDERLYING THE WIRE AND LIMITING THE DOWNWARD MOVEMENT THEREOF.