Things you've always wanted to know......

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

^^^ It's a real pain having to move the stones every time the clocks change.

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Can someone please identify my little electrical connector thingy please.

[Sloffy]

Ive posted this before, maybe on here cant remember. BUT

All the billions and billions of wild animals that have lived on this planet, obviously they die at some point. Their meat eaten by predators or just rots away.

But where do the billions of skeletons go? Foxes, birds, badgers, rats, mice blah blah.

I always think this when I hear that a dinosaur bone or skeleton gets found somewhere. If dinosaur bones survive millions of years surely all wild animals bones can? Yet Ive never seen one anywhere?

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Bones mostly decay. Occasionally they find themselves in conditions where they don't decay, like peat bogs. It takes a long time, but eventually they 'turn to dust'.

Dinosaur 'bones' aren't bones, they're stone. The bones themselves have been dissolved by mineral rich water and their material replaced by the minerals over millions of years.

[-DL-]

Dinosaur 'bones' aren't bones, they're stone. The bones themselves have been dissolved by mineral rich water and their material replaced by the minerals over millions of years.

There was a study done that was shown on TV, where they dissolved some T-Rex bone samples in acid, and amazingly, there were tiny amounts of organic matter left over - and that matter contained DNA, but not enough to get a profile. Theoretically, as and when DNA extraction technology becomes more advanced, it may be possible to get a DNA profile from the samples.

[DasNutNock]

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

Dino D.N.A!!!

[Monkeybubbles]

Can someone please identify my little electrical connector thingy please.

A company called Molex make all sorts of connectors, crimps, crimp tools for stuff like this.

http://www.molex.com/molex/products/gro ... l=products" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Somewhere like https://www.rapidonline.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; could be a good place to start for new crimps.

Yep, it's what's generically called a Molex connector. But that particular one isn't actually made by Molex.

I'm fairly sure it's a JST type PH 6 way connector.

https://www.rapidonline.com/jst-phr-6-6 ... mm-22-5248

You need to buy the crimp pins to go with it.

Or you could get medieval and just solder the wires direct to the PCB.

EDIT: The pic of the connector on the Rapid website doesn't look the same as the one in your photo because it's showing the reverse side.

[-DL-]

Can someone please identify my little electrical connector thingy please.

Yes. It's a JST S6B-PH-K-S shrouded header.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S6B-PH-K-S-LF ... 0937119022" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Monkeybubbles]

Yes. It's a JST S6B-PH-K-S shrouded header.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/S6B-PH-K-S-LF ... 0937119022" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not wishing to be pedantic, but I think RARS is after the crimp housing rather than the header.

[Mega Ron]

It's like you're speaking Welsh in here at the moment.

[ageing hammer]

It's like you're speaking Welsh in here at the moment.

You lost me at "Can someone"

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Can someone please identify my little electrical connector thingy please.

Try taking it to a computer repair shop (a proper one, not PC World). Someone there should be able to help identifying it and selling you one.

[Monkeybubbles]

Try taking it to a computer repair shop (a proper one, not PC World). Someone there should be able to help identifying it and selling you one.

Or you could buy it from the link I posted and save yourself the hassle.

[Johnny Byrne's Boots]

Indeed he could.

The repair shop may well crimp the pins on for him though

[rare as rockinghorse shat]

The housing is not a problem, it's the part to crimp the wires into that I need.

Thanks a lot chaps

[Morocco Mole]

In Top Gun the pilots and RIOs all serve in the US Navy.

For what reasons would an aspiring fighter pilot opt to join the Navy rather than the Air Force?

In a nutshell: aircraft carriers. Because of that (rightly or wrongly) Navy Pilots have a reputation as more 'tip of the spear'.

[Tristan Shout]

Dishwashers:
Everything washes fine in my dishwasher, no complaints except for two things, plates, cutlery etc all dry to a perfect shine but plastic things like tuperwear are always still soaked, why do they not dry??
Also I make an omelette every now and again, egg never comes off, it always dries on like glue, why does it not wash off??

[Monkeybubbles]

Also I make an omelette every now and again, egg never comes off, it always dries on like glue, why does it not wash off??

The protein in the egg forms a chemical bond with the metal in the pan. It always dries on like glue because it actually is a type of glue, they use something fairly similar to stick bits of aeroplanes together.

[WHU_Del]

When companies apply their livery to a van, and blank out the back windows, why do they leave the rear wiper connected?