Date   : Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:19:36 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: writing and reading on 3.5 floppy

Good idea, I'll try that next time I have to make up an extension lead of
some description.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Devries
To:  "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Sent:  Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:44:32 +1000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: writing and reading on 3.5 floppy

Ian, my suggestion to that would be to sacrifice a femal, and crimp it 
together, and then insert it into the male (umm, did I get that the right 
way?), and crimp it. Then remove the female, and keep for the next job.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...             >
To: <bbc-micro@...         >
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: writing and reading on 3.5 floppy


> Yes, almost anything will work for one-off crimping.  The first one I did
> (to my first Teletext adapter which arrived avec ribbon cable but
> sans connector) was to put on the connector and then lie it flat
> with the ribbon cable on the kitchen worktop and press down firmly
> with a saucepan.
>
> Here's a question though - I've got one of those crimp tools now
> which is like a hand-held clamp and you assemble the ribbon and
> connector and put it in and squeeze the handles together.  I'm OK
> with crimping on female connectors but when I try the male ones
> they inevitably crack into pieces.  Am I doing it wrong?
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jgh@...                (Jonathan Graham Harston)
> To:  bbc-micro@...         
> Sent:  30 Aug 2006 01:44:22 +0100
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: writing and reading on 3.5 floppy
>
>>Message-ID: <44EEC353.3020804@...             >
>
> Mike Howard <aixguru@...             > wrote:
>> You just need to crimp a 3.5" floppy connector onto your 5.25" lead. A
>> vice is quite handy for this but you could get away with pliers I 
>> suppose.
>
> I once used a shoe!
>
> -- 
> J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
> RISC OS Internationalisation - http://mdfs.net/Software/RISCOS
>
>




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