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The blue connector is just a size reference.
I don't remember what I pulled these from. Can they go as gold plated pins? I will trim the non plated material.

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Thanks so much!
Lynne

Those are from fin style backplane connectors. I’ll forward this for an official reply.

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Sure. Trim them all the way to the plate and I will give them a try as gold plated pins.

Thanks!

For everyone else:

The most common place you can find these today is power units for rack servers.
Though I expect we’ll see more and more with COVID from theatre (ticket and popcorn) equipment.

Chris may ultimately need to create a gold plated fin class. ;)
This style was extremely popular in the late 80s with cross-over equipment that was too small to be classed as a minicomputer but had all the parts of them. They disappeared until the early 00s outside of hot swap power supplies.
With the digital theatre boom these became popular again...principally due to teenage stupidity
Theatres use different equipment for different Digitalfilms. The fin design was the least likely to fail when 15yo susie or Jonny was rushed to swap server cards for different films.
The RealiScape racks have gigantic fin connectors. And most of the host theatres for these systems are now either dead or in bankruptcy proceedings.
People worry about theatre chains like Regal and AMC.
The most advanced art house theatres are the ones dying. The equipment from them now making it into the scrap community

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Very interesting. Thanks, lostinlodos!

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Thanks so much!
Lynne

Yes, always enjoy the side adventures into the realms of ancient technology lore. Sometimes knowing where or why something exists or existed is more fun than knowing what it is worth for scrap. Thanks, lostinlodos.

I’m surprised these didn’t catch on better. They’re a bit harder to manufacture but are far more sturdy than pins. More reliable than PCB edge connectors (finger connectors). Sega used them in the AM series of arcade machines.
SNK in the enclosed 3D NeoGeo cabinets. Universal has them in some more aggressive arcade rides. Like the terminator and jaws displays. Disney for Star Wars and Life.

Alas the dollar is mightier than the service credo.
Pins are a giant heavy wire cut at even length by a machine at nearly a hundred miles per hour.

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