Re: 8051 Development Board / 89C51 / MCS51 / 8052

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:02:44 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> In article <dajsqi$hke$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Brian Clark <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Yes the Cygnal kit is a good one and very popular. Think its like $99?
>>
>>I always longed for more prototyping area though - sheer greed eh!
>>
> So buy a proto-PCB and a bottle of super glue.

Be careful trying to super-glue nylon-bodied Molex connectors to
a phenolic board (like a light-brownish RS perfboard) - I was
trying to glue a Molex connector to a piece of perfboard once,
and while I was pushing down on the ends of the pins with my
thumb, and trying to hold the board steady with the rest of my
fingers, of course, as soon as I applied any appreciable
pressure, the connector escaped. POP! It goes sailing into the
air, only to land on the floor right in the aisle behind my
bench, and who should be walking by at that precise moment,
but my engineer, who was also nominally my boss. So he sees
the Molex connector hit the floor in front of him, landing
right almost exactly in the spot where his next footprint
would have landed, and "Oh!" he hesitates, stops, stoops
over, and picks up the connector, saying, "Hey, Rich, did
you drop this?" (Or he might have said, "Lose something,
Rich?" but you get the point). He went to casually toss it
back onto my bench into the pile of other parts that are
usually there, and much to his surprise, and my great
amusement, the Molex connector had superglued itself to
his finger. ;-)

So, anyway, be careful about supergluing stuff - the only
stuff I've ever seen superglue adhese reliably is human
skin, which isn't all that surprising, after all, when you
consider that the etymology/ancestry/lineage of superglue
was that they were looking for some adhesive that they
could use on skin instead of stitches. Or staples. I don't
know why it never caught on - I've found it great for just
that sort of thing.

And, of course, skin is the _only_ thing I've ever been able
to get superglue to stick anything to. )-;

RTV, on the other hand... >:->

Cheers!
Rich

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