Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxq!agk From: agk@ihuxq.UUCP (Andy Kegel) Newsgroups: net.micro.68k Subject: Re: inserting multibus boards without breaking your fingers Message-ID: <1361@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 18:08:44 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1361 Posted: Thu Nov 29 18:08:44 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 30-Nov-84 07:49:34 EST References: <509@cbosgd.UUCP> <245@desint.UUCP> <314@amdcad.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 > I have seen some > boards which were too *wide*, as opposed to being too thick. > ... > The other two edges most people don't think about. Take a good look at them. > Do they show signs of rubbing or damage? If so, then the board is too wide. > It may help to take a file to those edges. This isn't always the problem > but is worth considering. But be careful with that file! A co-worker once filed down a card for me. Mike was a bit careless for he filed off too much. Much grief followed because the card fingers became mis-aligned with the connector fingers -- card fingers shorted adjacent connector fingers. Mike eventually rebuilt the filed edge with epoxy. I trashed the first board (accidentally, of course :-) when the second board was made available. -andy kegel just another AT&T employee with opinions of his own