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Subject: Re: Special reward for Ethernet xceiver cable designer
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 08:22:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 08:22:48 1987
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In article <44078@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes:
>I suspect that many of you out there share my belief that
>if there is in fact any justice in this world, there is
>a special place in Hell reserved for the person who
>design the bloody clip which is claimed to hold a
>transciever cable in place at either end.

Hear! Hear!

>This is certainly one of the worst industrial designs
>ever conceived and sets some kind of new record
>for the damage done by standards committees.

Agreed.

>So, with my speen appropriately vented, does anyone
>out there have any good suggestions for dealing with
>these rotten blighters??
>What do other people do??
>
>	-Mike O'Dell

We replace all of the connector hoods with screw down posts, as in
most metal RS-232 hoods I've seen. We now install all wall taps this
way and with only a few exceptions, all connectors on machines are
converted.

If you are determined to use a slide connector of some sort, there is
one that slides the other way (how should I say this?):

	------------------	^
	\ . . . . . . . . /	| this way, not <--> that way.
	 \ . . . . . . ./	v
	  -------------

For some reason, that style of slide connectors seems to lock better.
Look in an AMP catalog. The connectors with 90 degree bends are
constrained to use that kind of connector. 


Skip (montanaro@ge-crd.arpa or uunet!steinmetz!desdemona!montanaro)