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Hello there,

I have encountered the following problem with one of the boards I pulled out of one of those razor thin servers. This seems to be a peripheral card but there is a metal cage right on top of it which seems to be soldered to the card. I have been trying to separate the metal cage from it but I am destroying the card. I also see 2 separate tiny gold finger cards attached to the metal cage but, yet again, I can't manage to separate them. Do you think Boardsort will get upset if I send it as a peripheral card with the metal cage on it?

Also, I was wondering if you could help me identify a few more cards.

Thanks a million!

Kindly regards,
Natalia

A) gold finger card
B) peripheral (you need gold connectors for backplane)
I bookmarked this
I need to see the cage card from my computer where I can see it better

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Generally this is not a good situation. However you also have two sets of gold fingers and a lot of gold pin connectors. I think this should just barely squeak by into peripheral.

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Hello there Lostinlodos,

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer this tough question. Do you think I should send Chris the same pictures I posted in this forum to see if he allows me to send this board as is? I just don't want to upset any of the workers that receive my packages. I'm in pickle!

Kindly regards,
Natalia

I’ve run into stuff like this before; usually from cube servers.
Well the only way to be absolutely certain is to do as you suggest and send Chris a photo, cage 1 and cage 3 being all he’d need to class it; I’m fairly sure this will clear peripheral.

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I would use a metal cutoff driver like the ones we used in automotive to cut exhaust or a drill with cutoff disk on drill mandrel and cut off most of cage and then may be able to remove rest with metal cutters if open enough to get at.

Will do!

Thanks again and Happy Thanksgiving!