20mA serial cable connector

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Sat Apr 20 03:50:27 2002

On Apr 19, 20:36, Don Maslin wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > I've kludged together cables for a PDP-11/34 by using the pins
> > > out of those 4-pin Molex connectors that are normally used on
> > > disk and tape drives. We just stuck the pins in the appropriate
> > > sockets and left it at that! Being careful not to pull on the
> > > wire, of course.
> >
> > Couldn't you get a strip of plastic and drill some suitable (stepped)
> > holes in it to hold the pins? OK, it wouldn't lock to the socket, and
it
> > would probably fit either way up, but at least the pins would be kept
in
> > the right sequence.

> Another possibility, depending on the shape of the receptacle recess,
> might be to encapsulate the pins(?) with RTV. Same caveats as Tony
> cited above.

Yet another revolutionary idea might be to buy a few of the correct
housings :-) They're made by AMP, by the way, not Molex. They're readily
avaialble from any AMP supplier, and very cheap.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 03:50:27 BST

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