26 Dec
2016
26 Dec
'16
1:51 p.m.
On 12/26/2016 04:14 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Paul Koning
<paulkoning at comcast.net> wrote:
Odd...The chap who gave me the rack removed the panel (and the fan,
and the stabiliser feet) for transport and gave me a box with them in. He
commented that as I was putting a PDP8e in it, I'd probably not want the
banner that was there (I am pretty sure that the original contents of this
H960 was some kind of PDP11 system).
Anyway, spend the day cleaning dust off parts, stripping the fan and power
controller, etc. I did not notice any adhesive residue on the plastic header
panel. And I think I would have done.
So perhaps the header was blank, or the banner just pushed in (perhaps
somebody forgot to remove the backing paper...).
-tony
Sounds like the banner plate for my 11T (Qbus 11 in a 50inch rack) the
banner holder was such that it could slid in from the end if you took
off the plastic end stop. It has the PDP-11 in in the older reds scheme
on thin maybe .040" aluminium.
Allison
On Dec
26, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Tony Duell <ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
No, the aluminum is adhesive-backed (with a rather
potent adhesive).
It's similar to what you see in serial number plates on machinery. I
have somewhere a PDP-11 banner plate by itself, with the wax paper
backing covering the adhesive still in place. If your plastic bracket is
clean looking, it may never have had the panel stuck to it in the first
place. ...
I hadn't realised that they were
printed on aluminium. Ouch!. I also
don't know how they are fixed to the plastic header panel, my plastic
panel is 'empty' and I don't see any adhesive residue. Maybe some
kind of double-sided tape?