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</head><body text="#000000">Thank you, Dan!<br>
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I will take some pictures and get out the calipers this week if I can;
I'm traveling later in the week.<br>
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If you think having one in hand will be better, I can see about
carefully removing one from one of my boards.<br>
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I'll take this to direct mail moving forward, and let the group in when
there's more to share.<br>
<br>
Steve<br>
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dir="auto">I made a model for vme board ejector ears. If you take a
picture of them and/or send me one of yours, we can easily
duplicate them.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Dan.</div></div><br><div
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<br>I'm working on rehabbing my SparcServer 1000E (and maybe another)
and
I've once again run into the issue of the purple board ejector/lock
levers being missing or broken.
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<br>These are also seen on the Ex00 series servers.
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<br>It's not impossible to work around this, but it can be mighty
inconvenient.
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<br>Very much admitting that I've not done my homework on this, are
things
like 3d printed replacements available and more importantly, viable?
<br>
<br>Looking at the boards that are currently whole, it looks like the
ejectors are held on my some kind of pressure-fit pin. Before I do an
autopsy on one of my boards has anyone come up with a home DIY solution
to this?
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<br>I'm going to to poke around some of the sites like Thingiverse and
Printables and see if I can find anything. If, however, you have already
crossed this bridge and have anything good or bad to share, please do.
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<br>Thanks,
<br>
<br>Steve
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