Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Bruce LeGrande:
 BL> spring, or maybe some of those spring metal strips used in SOME 
 BL> older computers (like Packard Bells and AT&T)
 RJT> Funny you should mention PB as that's exactly who came to mind
 RJT> when I saw this go by the first time around...
Samsung was another good one for using those connection spring strips.
 RJT> Try a roofing supply place for "flashing" or a crafts store,  or
 RJT> maybe a hobby shop.  I've seen thin sheet copper and brass
 RJT> available in places like that. 
A craft store would be JUST the ticket.  And then it could be
made of copper, which I'm sure would give a better connection.
(not as good as gold, but 'vat-da-hey'...)
 RJT> Sure sounds like a lot of work to me!
If I do it 'right' I think I can make it fairly simple,
just going to need to be REAL careful about the drilling.
 RJT> You could always get a few of those clips designed to go over
 RJT> battery posts and clip them over the wire-ends.  A wire soldered
 RJT> to them and grounded to the case oughta take care of things,  and
 RJT> although this'd make connect/disconnect a two-step process it sure
 RJT> doesn't seem to me like it'd be near as much of a hassle as what
 RJT> you're describing above.  Do those grounds have to go to the
 RJT> _card_?
That's something I hadn't thought of!    Are you talking
about 'alligator' clips ?  The larger variety ?  They could
probably be just clipped over the metal part of the shield that
surrounds the madular plug.  Is that what you had in mind ?
 BL> Forgive me, I tried to make a drawing of what I have in mind 
 BL> with ASCII, but it just didn't look right.  The following MIME 
And ONCE AGAIN, My apologies to any offended by the encoded file.
 RJT> Looked at that,  and you gotta consider the way the wires inside
 RJT> the jack tend to stick up at a pretty good angle,  you may end up
 RJT> getting in trouble with that arrangement.
Glad the graphics came through OK - my ASCII art stinks!
Hadn't thought about that, but don't you think that with enough spring 
tension on the contacts (strips) against the inside 'side' of the jack, they 
would stay away from the OEM contacts ?   I haven't pulled one of the 3C 
cards out to look, but the jacks in the SMC cards have a 'channel' going down 
each side (on the inside) about 1/8" wide that MIGHT accomodate the strips.  
I don't see any surface (ie ridge) on the plug that mates with this.
Sincerely,
           Bruce - kb6lwn@juno.com - http://www.qsl.net/kb6lwn
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