Gene What I sometimes do is to take a piece of electrical wire and strip the insulation off. Then I split the insulation along the length and slip it over the sharp edge. You can glue it with some epoxy or the like.
On 2013/04/11 12:16 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2013 18:12:55 Marius Liebenberg did opine: > >> Gene, >> The pins on the MB is just a double header so you should be able to do >> that. I am looking at doing just that so I made a visit to the supplier >> and had a look at the MB to see how they do it. >> You could always make a little slot in the end plate of the PCI card or >> pop out one of the unused place holders on the back plate. > Which is what I did do at one point but with a 50 pin scsi cable from a > triple 82C55 based card, and the edges of the hole in the backplane were > too sharp for comfort IMO. To be comfy, it would have needed an edge > breaker strip installed. And those aren't commodity items here in the > middle of WV. :) > >> On 2013/04/10 05:43 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Wednesday 10 April 2013 11:40:26 Rudy du Preez did opine: >>>> The Intel D2800MT actually has a parallel port. It sits on the board >>>> and needs a ribbon cable extension. >>> Can the ribbon cable be fed directly to a B.O.B. such as Leonardo's >>> CNC4PC model C1G?, bypassing at least one set of db25's? Sounds cool >>> if you can get the cable out of a box like the 350 mini itx box. >>> >>>> I am currently running a Linuxcnc 2.5.2 on this board with two >>>> parports: one in the PCI-E slot and one on the ribbon cable. >>>> One is configured as "out" and the other as "in". >>>> >>>> Rudy > Cheers, Gene -- Regards / Groete Marius D. Liebenberg MasterCut cc Cel: +27 82 698 3251 Tel: +27 12 743 6064 Fax: +27 86 551 8029 Skype: marius_d.liebenberg Skype Me^(TM)! <skype:marius_d.liebenberg?call> Get Skype <http://www.skype.com/go/download> and call me for free. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 130410-2, 2013/04/10 Tested on: 2013/04/11 08:36:53 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2013 AVAST Software. http://www.avast.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
