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<br>It did come through the first time, actually. I saw it.
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send this before, but I'm guessing it got eaten because of
included links(?) I'll try again - you can contact me directly for the
necessary links to the levers and the compression pins.
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<br>Steve
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<br>Greetings all,
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<br>After my plea for a source for an STL file for board eject levers
for
the Sparcserver 1000/E, list member Dan Moisa stepped up and modeled an
original ejector, and I can report it works great!
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<br>He is willing to share, and so you can get the file from his GitHub.
Contact me for the link.
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<br>I printed the levers on my Prusa with PLA at .15 layer height and
30%
infill, and they seem plenty strong.
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<br>As far as the pins, I ordered some 2.5mm by 6mm compression pins
online
which seem to be a direct replacement for the original part. Contact me
for the link.
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<br>I did find that the fit was a little too tight for the hole in the
lever. Dan offered to widen it out a bit, but instead I used a 7/64
drill bit to chase out the hole and then the pins fit in snugly without
excessive pressure. A 2.5mm bit (if you have metric sizes) should do the
job as well.
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<br>These pins took a while to arrive from overseas; I'm guessing just
about
anything that's 2.5mm in diameter will work, as long as they don't hang
down past the bottom of the board as it's inserted. There more room on
the top.
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<br>I'm sure there may be better material than PLA to use to print
these,
but that's what I had handy, and as I said it seems to be strong enough.
Will it last for another 30 years? Probably not, but I don't plan to be
pulling the boards in and out of my SS1000 that much, and it looks way
better than the janky zip-tie pulls I had made before.
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<br>Thank you _very_ much to Dan for doing the work to model the lever,
making an adjustment to better fit the board width, and especially for
being willing to share the STL freely to the community! I plan to put
the STL up on Thingiverse/Printables as well and try to get the news out
to the community at large.
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<br>If you want to see pictures, message me off-list and I can send some
to you.
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<br>Steve
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