26 Apr
2017
26 Apr
'17
2:06 p.m.
It's one of these:
http://www.grommetmachinery.com/stimpson-479-machine.html
Glad to hear it was saved from the scrap heap! A very cool machine, reminds me of the
manual punch we had to go along with our trip punch at a previous job.
Stu Phillips, a friend of ours did the insertion of
metal metal Southco
extractor handles on our boards for the Microdata 1600.
That business came from him owning an injection
molding machine and
someone asking him to make the handles.
The blue handles on the MDB Unibus prototyping boards I've got are Stu Phillips
handles. They are indeed riveted on, but I don't know if MDB did their own riveting.
With the amount of DEC-compatible stuff they made, it wouldn't surprise me.
Thanks,
Jonathan