I got the jaggies today for the first time, I think partly because of
the SER-001 and the audio-jack that are in there, so I took it
completely apart and cleaned off the touch screen (and was kind of
amazed that the touch screen is simply four wires...)
This question if for (maybe) PCBMan or anyone else who has experience
with industrial plastic engineering. Anyway, I've managed
(accidentally, or what curiosity did to the proverbial cat?) to remove
the PCMCIA "guides" that lay on top of the main board and house the
eject buttons. On the side of the guide that is most toward the center,
there's a little elliptical nib which fits into an equally small hole on
the guide. That holds fine becasue it won't come out when the guide is
parallel to the board. But on the other side, there's only a normal
circular nib (looks about 6mm from the end of the plastic piece
connected to the baord, looking toward the pins), and as such, that side
can slide around quite a bit. While it does appear to be able to hold
together when the Newt is assembled, I wonder if there is some
engineering reason why a bit of play in that side is needed? It doesn't
look like it, as I can physically hold the guide in place and the eject
works just fine. Was the engineering team just being lazy (or cost
cutting, or applying Ockham's razor) when not coming up with a better
way to secure that side (the "elliptical nib" trick wouldn't work as it
can't rotate up from the board, thought it looks like a strategically
place 1-22mm toungue-and-groove might have worked - what are the
tolerances for injection molds - the finest lines in the case look to be
about 1-3mm)
Jim
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