[R-390] Filter pins

[Roy Morgan]

At 08:04 PM 2/5/04 -0800, Dan Merz wrote:
>Hi,  Pete, John, and Todd and thanks for the helpful comments.  I wonder 
>where I can get a male 9 pin plug.

Carefully score a 9-pin tube near the base with a glass cutter. Then warm 
it in hot water and dunk it down top first in ice water. The thing will cut 
nicely. (At least that's what I predict!)

Then remove the innards, smooth the glass edge with a silicon carbide 
sharpening stone, or "sand paper".  Solder (use flux if you need to) your 
connections to the remaining pins.  Use epoxy creatively with a piece of 
aluminum tube cut in half, and you are in business.

Roy

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