how do you make a jumper for eide drive pins?

[~A_Sammy]

I want to connect wires to the master slave pins on some hard drives, and
wire them to some toggle switches.
The jumper blocks don't lent themselves to this. I
pulled the wire wound out of a small wire nut, but it's base is too wide. I
can't find anything that will fit tightly over a single pin to which I can
attach a wire. I don't want to solder the wires on.
any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks
Sammy

 

[Alan Walker]

I want to connect wires to the master slave pins on some hard drives,
and wire them to some toggle switches.
The jumper blocks don't lent themselves to this. I
pulled the wire wound out of a small wire nut, but it's base is too
wide. I can't find anything that will fit tightly over a single pin
to which I can attach a wire. I don't want to solder the wires on.
any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks
Sammy

Take the metal part out of a jumper, now the difficult bit:

Take some thin single core wire and grip it about .5cm from the end with
some fine pliers, wiggle it until the core breaks and pull it out the end,
repeat with another length of suitable wire. Feed the two wires into the
top of the jumper until level with the bottom and glue in place.

Might not be the best way and it took me several attempts but worked
eventually.

 

[Norm]

What you need is a 30 gauge wire wrap tool and of course some 30 gauge wire,
here's a link:
http://www.elexp.com/pro_3wte.htm
You can also find them at the radio shack website.

 

[Al Dykes]

What you need is a 30 gauge wire wrap tool and of course some 30 gauge wire,
here's a link:
http://www.elexp.com/pro_3wte.htm
You can also find them at the radio shack website.

It would be cheaper to buy the jumpers than the tool.

Cyberguys (www.cyberguys.com) has them,

The easiest way is to scrounge them from most any other system. Most
PCs have one disk, and most disks shipped with an unused jumper
"parked" on two pins in a way that has no effect. Make sure there
isn't another IDE device on the cable before you scrounge the jumper.

 

[tomcas]

I want to connect wires to the master slave pins on some hard drives, and
wire them to some toggle switches.
The jumper blocks don't lent themselves to this. I
pulled the wire wound out of a small wire nut, but it's base is too wide. I
can't find anything that will fit tightly over a single pin to which I can
attach a wire. I don't want to solder the wires on.
any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks
Sammy

Scavenge some female connectors terminals from an electrical connector
that uses the same basic pin size. If they are already inserted into a
plastic shell you can usually release them by depressing the latch
portion of the metal. You may even find individually insulated
connectors like the ones used to connect the USB ports on PC cases to
the motherboard connectors.

 

[Walt]

Would setting them up to use "cable select" instead of specifically
"master" or "slave" possibly work for your application?

 

[JAD]

you could use a spring connector(small tightly wound spring that
expands to accept various sizes)
or solder the wire to the JUMPER itself, but you have to terminate the
connection between the terminals obviously.
that could be difficult to accomplish as many are super small now.

 

[BarryNL]

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I can

You can buy these sort of connectors in electronics shops. Probably
Radio Shack has them. I certainly bought them from Conrad in Germany
before. They generally come as a big block of 20 (2x10) connectors or so
and you have to use a knife to cut them down to the size you need.

 

[Stephen]

I want to connect wires to the master slave pins on some hard drives, and
wire them to some toggle switches.
The jumper blocks don't lent themselves to this. I
pulled the wire wound out of a small wire nut, but it's base is too wide. I
can't find anything that will fit tightly over a single pin to which I can
attach a wire. I don't want to solder the wires on.
any ideas on how to do this?
Thanks
Sammy

Got an unused pc case laying around? Use the motherboard connectors
from the case leds and switches.

Stephen

 

[~A_Sammy]

Eurika!
Thanks Steve, I do have some, and I just checked.
They fit perfectly.
Thanks again.
Sammy