OT: IDE Cables are hard to find
Tim
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Wed Dec 5 05:07:49 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:53 -0800, Tod Merley wrote:
> If you have one that is worn out sometimes you can "pop the top off"
> (carefully spread the side grips and the top should pull off) and then
> pull the cable out of the "insulation displacement" (usually sharp top
> split tubes). After using some scissors to establish a clean end of
> unused cable you can then use a vise and a couple of short pieces of
> metal stock (flat metal) to press the top and cable back into place.
> The connector is mostly plastic and a vise amplifies force quite well,
> use a light touch.
Though, that only fixes problems when someone's tugged the wires out of
the connector. Sometimes the connector is actually worn out. Most are
only meant for a few plugs and unplugs while building a PC, and don't
survive perpetural computer innard fiddlers.
And then there's cable breaks... I've had a cable with a strange break
in the middle of the ribbon, with no obvious signs that there would be
one at that spot. I'm guessing it was a manufacturing defect that had a
weak point there.
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