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From: 231b3618@fergvax.unl.edu (Ben Hollingsworth)
Subject: Re: cable end part number
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Date: 28 Mar 91 03:43:22 GMT
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asslk@acad2.anc.alaska.edu (Kingry Shane L) writes:

>I found these little brass hollow tubes - very small.  To the best of my 
>analysis, there are the female part of a db25 connector.  You can buy
>these pins, and puch them into the proper slot on the connector.  Anyway,
>I solderd(sp) the four wires from my cable, one to each hollow pin.
>Then, I pished all of the hollow pins onto the proper HP male pin, and 
>while theye were there, I brought out the handy dandy ZAP glue, and 
>glued all four female (hollow) pins together...  A friend of mine used
>a glue gun.  The only thing that one should watch real 
>carefully is not to glue your newly made cable end on the pins to the
>pins!! <grin>  

>             |----------glue these four female hollow pins together
>------------=== --
>------------=== --
>------------=== --
>------------=== --
>        ^    ^   ^
>Wire to |    |   |____HP male pins in calc
>computer     |______female hollow pins

I had the same idea but was unable to find these little female tubes.
You said they may have come from a db25 connector:  does this mean
canibalizing a normal connector will work?

Getting anxious and impatient,
Obi-Wan

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