On 5/29/22 12:26 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
You could theoretically add wires without removing the board. I've never seen it done and I suspect that it's not safe.
I'm now getting the impression that the wires were sort of latched into the board and the plugboard tool was used to unlatch wires for insertion and removal.
The idea of plugs & wires being latched into the board makes more sense as far as inserting & removing the entire board from the system. As if the board is simply a passive frame that holds the plugs & wires in place while the actual jack for the plugs remains in the system.
I have no idea if this is remotely correct, but it does make a LOT more sense to me than removing and inserting boards with a bunch of jack in them.
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