[rescue] Sun Board ejectors

[Steve Hatle]

Thank you, Dan!

I will take some pictures and get out the calipers this week if I can; 
I'm traveling later in the week.

If you think having one in hand will be better, I can see about 
carefully removing one from one of my boards.

I'll take this to direct mail moving forward, and let the group in when 
there's more to share.

Steve

> Dan Moisa <mailto:dmoisa at gmail.com>
> January 25, 2026 at 2:55 PM
> I made a model for vme board ejector ears. If you take a picture of 
> them and/or send me one of yours, we can easily duplicate them.
>
> Dan.
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2026, 10:59 Steve Hatle via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org 
> <mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org>> wrote:
> Steve Hatle <mailto:steve.hatle at gmail.com>
> January 25, 2026 at 12:57 PM
> All,
>
> I'm working on rehabbing my SparcServer 1000E (and maybe another) and 
> I've once again run into the issue of the purple board ejector/lock 
> levers being missing or broken.
>
> These are also seen on the Ex00 series servers.
>
> It's not impossible to work around this, but it can be mighty 
> inconvenient.
>
> Very much admitting that I've not done my homework on this, are things 
> like 3d printed replacements available and more importantly, viable?
>
> Looking at the boards that are currently whole, it looks like the 
> ejectors are held on my some kind of pressure-fit pin. Before I do an 
> autopsy on one of my boards has anyone come up with a home DIY 
> solution to this?
>
> I'm going to to poke around some of the sites like Thingiverse and 
> Printables and see if I can find anything. If, however, you have 
> already crossed this bridge and have anything good or bad to share, 
> please do.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve

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