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Default Connector blainking pin question

On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:28:08 +0000, Tim Watts wrote:

On Sunday 10 March 2013 00:21 Bob Eager wrote in uk.d-i-y:

I'm making up some flat IDC cables which terminate in a 0.1 inch pitch
IDC header socket. This fits onto a board connector with 9 pins (one
omitted).

Clearly I'd like to fill the unused hole to make it impossible to plug
the things in the wrong way round. I'm probably going to use a blob of
epoxy, but does anyone have their own easy way of doing it?


A long time ago I bought some plastic pegs that you could inset for this
purpose. They were V-shaped to hold into the hole and had a flat very
thin top to cover the hole.

Might well have been RS or Farnell.


I tried Farnell but I'll look at RS. They do at least exist, then.



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