[62560] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Worst design decisions?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Thu Sep 18 21:22:09 2003
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:11 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Once upon a time, Ben Browning <benb@theriver.com> said:
> The little clippy widgets (looks kind of like @) on some oldschool racks,
> that hold the nut in place for the hex-head bolt. Why these were considered
> desirable is beyond me.
We've got a bunch of racks like that (and my PDP8 rack at home has them
as well). The nice thing about them is if you get a screw cross
threaded and chew up the threads, you can pop the clip off and put a new
one on. With rack rails that are pre-threaded, you've just lost the use
of a hole (or you can try to re-tap the hole, maybe ending up having to
use a non-standard screw for just that hole).
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Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
