HP-21MX bootstrapping?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Saturday 23 February 2008 22:29, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 23 Feb 2008 at 22:03, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> > Looks good.  But that's not what I have on hand here,  which looks more
> > like this:
> >
> > http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11z1zBFKbBL._AA160_.jpg
>
> Ah, the Vise-grip C-clamp.  There's also a Pony clamp that's a work-
> alike.  If you wanted to go a notch up, I recall seeing this thing at
> my favorite Cheap Chinese Tool Store:
>
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=3552
>
> With some modification, that'd work pretty well, it seems to me.
> Might be useful for other things as well, depending on your
> inclinations.  Make one heckuva walnut cracker...

Yeah it would.  Dunno if I'd wanna clean up the mess afterwards,  though.  :-)

The other thing I've used is a small vise,  with some padding on the jaws,  as 
others have mentioned.  I don't do a *lot* of those connectors,  though some 
years back I got a box of 36-pin "centronics" type and some ribbon cable.  I 
don't think I used 'em all up,  though.

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