DEC backplane repair

[Bill Pechter]

One tip -- cuticle nippers...  Small, pointy and sharp... just get the 
right wire the first time.



Bill

Charles H. Dickman wrote:

> Chuck Guzis wrote:
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>> On 11/9/2005 at 8:09 PM Charles H. Dickman wrote:
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>>> . Replace that run in the backplane.
>>>
>>> I figure I will have to replace most of the run because this segment 
>>> is on the lowest wrap level and in the middle of the run, so I have 
>>> to replace this one and the ones on either side.
>>>   
>>
>> How about just clipping either side of the wire and adding a wrap on 
>> top,
>> leaving the bottom wraps in place?  Is there room to do this?
>>
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>>
> A good suggestion that had not occurred to me. Unfortunately, I have a 
> difficult time even seeing the wire, let alone actually cutting it. I 
> can imagine unwrapping it and then tugging it out, but I don't have a 
> snippers small enought to cut it out.
>
> -chuck
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