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From: vjp2.at on 11 Apr 2010 21:17 Evey month the little lever thingie snaps off the modular RJ11 mail connector on my laptop's dialup modem cable and I have to crimp on a new one. Not a major sweat, but are there tougher, maybe metalic connectors that don't keep snapping? Do they work with the same crimpers? BTW, what is the smallest (still cheap) crimper? Maybe on a stick you press down instead of clamp like a plier? Idea is it should be like a screwdrive, disposable and in pocket. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
From: N_Cook on 12 Apr 2010 04:02 <vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message news:hptsat$jqn$1(a)reader1.panix.com... > Evey month the little lever thingie snaps off the modular RJ11 mail > connector on my laptop's dialup modem cable and I have to crimp on a > new one. Not a major sweat, but are there tougher, maybe metalic > connectors that don't keep snapping? Do they work with the same crimpers? > > BTW, what is the smallest (still cheap) crimper? Maybe on a stick you > press down instead of clamp like a plier? > Idea is it should be like a screwdrive, disposable and in pocket. > > > - = - > Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist > http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 > ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- > [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] > [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] > > > Could you make a sort of soft sprung mount inside the exposed finger-tab piece, perhaps some cable sleeve and hotmelt glue each side, Then if/when the original hinge end fails , remake with some hotmelt glue at that end. Hotmelt string details on my tips files, off below -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://diverse.4mg.com/index.htm
From: Adrian C on 12 Apr 2010 06:37 On 12/04/2010 09:02, N_Cook wrote: > <vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> wrote in message >> Evey month the little lever thingie snaps off the modular RJ11 mail >> connector on my laptop's dialup modem cable and I have to crimp on a >> new one... > Could you make a sort of soft sprung mount inside the exposed finger-tab > piece, perhaps some cable sleeve and hotmelt glue each side, Then if/when > the original hinge end fails , remake with some hotmelt glue at that end. > Hotmelt string details on my tips files, off below Or ... http://www.instructables.com/id/Repair-a-Broken-Ethernet-Plug/ -- Adrian C
From: vjp2.at on 12 Apr 2010 22:35 Thanks! You folks in this newsgroup are great! (THis is how nesgroups were fifteen years ago!) - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]
From: Mark Allread on 17 Apr 2010 00:06
To reduce breakage of those little tabs, you could get some heat-shrinkable tubing that is just barely big enough to make it over the connector (You can stretch it a little by pushing it down over the tip of a needle-nose pliers and forcing the jaws open slightly...) and then heating the end of the tube that's away from the connector, to shrink it. That gives you a sleeve you can slide down over the tab. vjp2.at(a)at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote: > Thanks! You folks in this newsgroup are great! > > (THis is how nesgroups were fifteen years ago!) > > - = - > Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist > http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 > ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- > [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] > [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] > > > |