20 Sep
2006
20 Sep
'06
4:13 p.m.
At 11:22 PM +0100 9/20/06, Tony Duell wrote:
Well done!. One comment, I would seriously recomend
putting some kind of
strain-relief on the wires at the edge connector. What I normally do is
screw a couple of tapped spacers to the connector feed, then screw a bit
of small angle brass (L cross section) to the other side of those, and
then fit cable clips to that as appropriate. Otherwise you will go mad
continually resoldering thr wires. Don't ask how I found that out :-)
I need to do something with all that, as I mentioned in one message,
this is the one part of the construction I don't like. Right now the
only way to unplug it is to use a pair of needle-nose pliers.
My problem is a decided lack of hardware on hand. You don't even
want to know what I had to do to come up with the hardware to fasten
the 25-pin connector to the case!
My first guess was some kind of tape cartidge box (the
translucent
plastic and the way it opens gave it away). I see others have correctly
said it was a TK50-like box. Well, I viewed the pictures in an local
internet cafe, and the box looks rectuangular (as opposed to square).
Either something is distorting the picture (does it look square to anyone
else?) or you've hit the well known perspective problem that affects
everyone who takes close-ups without a technical camera.
On my Mac and on my laptop (WinXP), they appear to be square. The
pictures were taken with a Nikon D70 and 105mm Macro lens, though I
did a pretty poor job on the depth of field. Maybe I should try with
my "antique" Sony Mactiva <sp?>, it's the 10x Optical zoom one that
writes to a floppy. I bought it nearly 10 years ago, largely to be
able to photograph computer equipment, and because it would work well
with non-MS OS's.
Zane
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