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Hoagie_one:
hmmm, hot glue

MonitorGuru:
I wired up an Arkanoid harness to Jamma edge connector adapator (using an old Commodore VIC-20 cartridge as the card edge side) and I glazed the hotglue over all the mini wires I used to create the thing.  Works 2 1/2 years later without problems.

(The reason it was built that way was because I had an Arkanoid in a cabinet with the classic Taito wiring, and then wanted to be able to swap in an Arkanoid 2 DOH board without having to rewire the cabinet.... Not many times you build an adaptor to go backwards :) )

SoundDoc:
Someones going to shoot me soon.....  :)

You just have to watch what your using hot glue on.....
My dad got this brilliant idea,
He took out his house soffets drilled them up, made custom drilled and measured boards, and eventually recessed all the christmas lights into the soffets so that all that you see from the gound, is christmas lights, evenly spaced around the house, no visable wires! and when their turned off, you cant even see them.
He would never have to take down christmas lights again! :D

the moral is:
Don't use Hotglue to hold the bulb sockets in place...

DOH!! In this case, EPOXY worked better (the second time around).  ;D
http://www.sbszoo.com/projects/xmas.htm
I've got to get him to update the page with the epoxy info..

If you have to make wiring mods to circuit boards, or make after factory changes, nothing holds the wires you've soldered onto the bottom of the board in place as well as hot glue.

Gameboy.au:
Also keep in mind that epoxy is also used as a heat conductive.

Many high end electronics (intrinsically safe mobile phones etc) use it so that parts of PCBs do not go above a certain temperature, and there is no chance of sparks or arcing (which is why intrinsically safe mobile phones are used in petrol and oil refineries)  ;)

Just something to keep in mind, so make sure it doesn't go anywhere near heat sensitive parts, like wiring etc.

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