On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:39:12 GMT, T i m wrote:

Ah, I used to work with kit (and would sometimes add to our servers
etc) a clipped version of the socket that stopped the plug falling out
... ;-)

Yeah thats fine for a bit of kit that is installed, left alone for a
while, decomissioned and removed. But the stuff Dave and I am talking
about would be chucked in flight case (or cardboard box), used for a few
hours, bunged back in the box, thrown in the back of a wagon driven
around a bit, used again somewhere else for a few hours and so on. The
fiddly bit of wire wasn't strong enough to survive this stort of
treatment long and tended to need a socket designed for it not a random
one pulled from the box of 50 others in the back of the truck.

Then of course there are all the ones stuffed up the back of racks of kit
that vibrate out during transit... IEC, PITA, don't like 'em.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail