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From: thompson@dalcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RS-232 connector flame!  Manufacturers, listen up!
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Date: Wed, 17-Dec-86 13:59:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 17 13:59:58 1986
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Reply-To: thompson@dalcs.UUCP (Michael A. Thompson)
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Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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	I ran into this problem too, and I thought A-ha they weren't
    tight enough so I took my little socket driver and started
    tighting the little..., nope, they just started breaking off
    (about 1 in ten would break off). I know some people might think
    that I was applying too much torque and they are right, but I
    wasn't applying an unreasonable amount of torque, it's just that
    the little... are made of a soft metal and break off at the
    base. What is worse is that the only way to install a new one on
    some boards is to drill out the thing, not an appealing approach.

	
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Michael A. Thompson, Dept. Math, Stats, & C.S., Dalhousie U., Halifax, N.S.
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