[sdiy] Roland M16C / M64C memory module - Connectors

[MTG]

If you can make the plastic thing (I'm in the same boat ... no 3D 
printing experience), then you could design it to utilize just about any 
manner of  pin. There are some Arduino headers are all flat, but it 
might be better to find something that tapers or is bent at the end to 
help with insertion. Like the original.

On 7/18/2017 12:08 PM, sleepy_dog at gmx.de wrote:
> 
> On second thought: I wonder whether one could 3D print something that's 
> analog to the center plastic thingy (see image link below) which holds 
> the gold contacts, but design it such that it could hold two PCB strips 
> (one for each side) of maybe 0,5mm width with gold pads in the card edge 
> formation matching the slot.
> It's not completely like the real thing, as the gold pads don't stick 
> out  from the surface, but better than nothing I guess...
> Or if one feels a fumble rage, 3D print a plastic thingy which holds 
> tose 28(?) brass contacts, and you need to put them all in :-D If it 
> gets accurate & stable enough for that.
> And then you ruin it when soldering, b/c the 3D printed plastic can't 
> withstand the temperature, heh...
> 
> That'd be a whole new area for me, never did any 3D printing. I hear 
> some affordable ones now work already when delivered, without it being 
> an insane time sink and hobby in its own right. At some point I'll "have 
> to" look at this, but I'd rather get my connector long before that, hehe.
>