RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-18 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > I had another go today, but I fail to see how you managed to pry this thing > apart without causing much more damage than appears in your photo. What kind > of tool did you use? > Stuff sometimes looks better in a photo than it does in real life. There are all sorts of nicks and gouges and th

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-18 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of tony duell > Sent: 18 October 2015 18:36 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU > > > > > > I ha

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-18 Thread tony duell
> > I had another go today, but I fail to see how you managed to pry this > > thing apart without causing much more damage than appears in your photo. > > What kind of tool did you use? > > My usual technique to deal with these sort of brick and wall-wart PSUs > that are glued together is to car

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-18 Thread Tothwolf
On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, Robert Jarratt wrote: I had another go today, but I fail to see how you managed to pry this thing apart without causing much more damage than appears in your photo. What kind of tool did you use? My usual technique to deal with these sort of brick and wall-wart PSUs that

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-18 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Peter > Coghlan > Sent: 16 October 2015 23:45 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU > > > > > Thank

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Peter Coghlan
> > Thanks very much for this. Interesting that there is a fuse inside. You > would think the casing would be designed to allow the fuse to be replaced > somehow. > That's not the original fuse either. I managed to blow that one when I was trying to find the original problem with the PSU. I was

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Peter > Coghlan > Sent: 16 October 2015 22:47 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU > > Robert Jarratt w

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Peter Coghlan
Robert Jarratt wrote: > > I tried to pry mine open, but it seemed that if I kept going I would end up > damaging it more than I would like. Do you have a picture of the opened > casing I could see? That would help me to see how best to open it. > Here you go: http://www.beyondthepale.ie/H7082-AB.

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Adrian > Graham > Sent: 16 October 2015 18:09 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU > > >> longer t

Re: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Adrian Graham
>> longer this time though. >> >> Now I find that the privileged password is not what I thought it is... >> >> Regards, >> Peter Coghlan. > > I tried to pry mine open, but it seemed that if I kept going I would end up > damaging it more than I would like. Do you have a picture of the opened > ca

RE: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-16 Thread Robert Jarratt
> -Original Message- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Peter > Coghlan > Sent: 15 October 2015 23:47 > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU > > Back in April, I w

Re: Opening a DECserver 90M External PSU

2015-10-15 Thread Peter Coghlan
Back in April, I wrote: > Robert Jarratt wrote: > > > > One of my DECserver 90M PSUs got dropped and stopped working as a result, > > possibly because it got pulled by the cable. That sounds like the kind of > > damage that might be repairable. I tried to open the enclosure and I found a > > hole u