Serial connector stuck to computer

[Colin McGregor]

Needle nose pliers are your friend. If there isn't
enough left at the top thumbscrew for the pliers to
get at then you will have to attack the small nut that
the cable screws into (a proccess you will have to
take care with as there MAY be a small nut inside the
case that could come loose and bounce around inside
the case (NOT good)). Either way, you will be going
into the sorts of tight spaces that needle nose pliers
do well at...

Colin McGregor

--- Walter Dnes <waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:31:36PM -0400, Joseph
> Kubik wrote
> > Err, so the screws came out fine, but the
> connector was still stuck?
> > If so, not using the screws is beside the point.
> 
>   I didn't make myself clear.  A picture is worth a
> thousand words.  To
> avoid attachments to this list, I've uploaded a
> small jpeg to my website.
> See http://www.waltdnes.org/misc/connector.jpg.  The
> arrow from the left
> points to the top of the thumbscrew.  The arrow from
> the bottom points
> to the small connector screw that holds the
> serial-port cable tightly to
> the computer's serial port.  The thumbscrew (left
> arrow) came off.  The
> small connector screw (bottom arrow) was still
> screwed in.  Merely
> pulling was not going to get it out.
> 
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