Friday, April 30, 2021

Aligner board not quite right, but should get it on the next revision

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 EXPERIENCE WITH THE POLY FOAM BOARD I received my poly foam board from the laser cutting site - 1/2" thick foam with the holes cut to ...
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Sunday, April 25, 2021

Created design for the aligner board and sent to fab

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 DESIGN DECISION REFINEMENT My original design for the aligner board was to have truncated pyramid shaped openings that would gently bend th...
Thursday, April 22, 2021

Almost there! Fix one position and move two bulbs

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 TRIAL INSERTION OF BULB MATRIX With essentially every lamp holder in place, I tried to slide the PCB with lamps right into the honeycomb ma...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Missing a handful of bulbs to complete all 164 positions of the 1130 Console Panel

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 BAD NEWS FROM THE LAMP SUPPLIER The supplier who told me that my bulbs were on order and would be shipped next week, followed up today with...
Tuesday, April 20, 2021

More than halfway done building lamps into holders

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 PROCESS RECAP Since my supply of new 2114 miniature incandescent bulbs is going to be delayed at least another week or so, I am reclaiming ...
Monday, April 19, 2021

Received lamp holders, beginning to build lamps for the IBM 1130 control panel

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 VERY SATISFIED WITH THE NYLON LAMP HOLDERS 3DHubs.com is the manufacturer of the nylon lamp holders I designed with Autocad Fusion 360. The...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Glacial movement of supplies while I bide my time

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 3D PRINTED LAMP HOLDER PRODUCTION I had a quote from 3Dhubs.com to produce 165 holders for an attractive price, with a production completio...