On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 09:51:11 +0000, fred wrote:
In article , Bob Eager
writes
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.
Yep, definitely seen them.
Next best thing is to dip a the end of a cocktail stick in epoxy and
push it in firmly, cutting off the excess with flush cutters for a
professional finish :-)
Not too much glue in case it migrates.
That's a good uk-d-i-y one!
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