So I needed a female to female gender changer so I could convert a male VGA plug to female, and while I was there I figured I might as well get 2 pieces of each and have the full set, but I did feel a little bit silly placing an order for a male to female gender changer… I don’t understand why they are even on the market.
I found this Custom Cable Creator. Pretty awesome! You can pick from a very wide variety of plugs and sockets and custom make a cable, then order it! Not sure what prices are like, I suspect high, especially for low volume.
Apparently Naphtha (known as Shellite in Australia) can be used for cleaning. But as near as I can tell it’s mostly used for fuel.
I have this anti-static wrist strap and a ZYX-209-I ESD wrist strap tester/monitor which I demonstrate in the video below.
So I asked about cleaning cables over here and apparently the material on the outside of a typical cable is PVC (Polyvinyl chloride), AKA “vinyl”. The jury is still out on what the best cleaner is for vinyl, but options include WD40, IPA, and metho (ethanol). I was worried that such solvents might damage PVC around electrical cables, but apparently it won’t.
If you open up a disc drive you are liable to see cables such as the one pictured below. I’d like to know what these cables are called and if it’s possible to order them. I would want them in different widths and lengths. What should I search for?
This is why we don’t use acetone on plastic:
I didn’t know that methylated spirits (AKA “metho”) were made from ethanol. The ethanol that I have is 99% Bio-Ethanol Alcohol:
When I finally get a PCIe IDE adapter that works, this is gonna come in handy: How to mount an Xbox formatted drive on Ubuntu.
The IDE adapter that I have is this one, but it reports all disks as damaged (and they’re not). I think maybe it’s too new for the drives maybe? Speaking a newer version of the ATA protocol? I have no idea really.
What am I missing?
