3 Jan
2014
3 Jan
'14
4:57 p.m.
On Jan 3, 2014, at 15:50 , Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not saying you _can't_ fit a round RL
cable down through the sides
of an 11/44, but my recollection is the cable ways are kinda tight and
only suitable for a few ribbon cables to make their way out (but I
might be remembering the 11/24 if they are mechanically different).
I took a closer look at the cable just now. It's round all the way to the controller
card, where the wires break out to a double row header with individually crimped terminals
and a strain relief clamp. The drive end has a cable clamp that looks like it might
connect to a shield. Just by eyeball, I'd call it about a 10 foot long cable. The
drive connector has a black plastic shell, rather than a metal shell like on my daisy
chain cables and terminators. I didn't see part numbers on the cable. My drives are
all missing the sheet metal piece that screws to the back panel near the connectors so
that the cables can be clamped to it, but a suitable replacement shouldn't be too hard
to kludge together. I will need to buy or kludge rack slides for at least a couple of my
drives.
I would not recommend that. Fused filament parts are
not as
structurally sound as injection molded parts. You can do some light
sanding and surface work, but major work that cuts through the
"shells" produces weak parts and exposes fill layers. Imagine cutting
a round hole in a chain-link fence and how that affects the integrity
of that panel of the fence.
Thanks for the advice. I haven't had my hands on filament printed parts yet, so I
don't know anything about their properties. Injection molded parts would sure be
nicer, but the tooling to make them would cost a few thousand dollars.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/