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. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
