[rescue] Sparcserver 1000 board eject levers!

[silcreval]

Amazing work. I'm betting there are a lot of potential bits for Sun's that would be very welcome. 

Sparcstation 20s/5s always seem to have trouble with the front 'corner' pieces. I have several of these in various states.

Ian.


> On 18 Mar 2026, at 18:26, Steve Hatle via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> I tried to send this before, but I'm guessing it got eaten because of included links(?) I'll try again - you can contact me directly for the necessary links to the levers and the compression pins.
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> Steve
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> Greetings all,
> 
> After my plea for a source for an STL file for board eject levers for the Sparcserver 1000/E, list member Dan Moisa stepped up and modeled an original ejector, and I can report it works great!
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> He is willing to share, and so you can get the file from his GitHub. Contact me for the link.
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> I printed the levers on my Prusa with PLA at .15 layer height and 30% infill, and they seem plenty strong.
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> As far as the pins, I ordered some 2.5mm by 6mm compression pins online which seem to be a direct replacement for the original part. Contact me for the link.
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> I did find that the fit was a little too tight for the hole in the lever. Dan offered to widen it out a bit, but instead I used a 7/64 drill bit to chase out the hole and then the pins fit in snugly without excessive pressure. A 2.5mm bit (if you have metric sizes) should do the job as well.
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> These pins took a while to arrive from overseas; I'm guessing just about anything that's 2.5mm in diameter will work, as long as they don't hang down past the bottom of the board as it's inserted. There more room on the top.
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> I'm sure there may be better material than PLA to use to print these, but that's what I had handy, and as I said it seems to be strong enough. Will it last for another 30 years? Probably not, but I don't plan to be pulling the boards in and out of my SS1000 that much, and it looks way better than the janky zip-tie pulls I had made before.
> 
> Thank you _very_ much to Dan for doing the work to model the lever, making an adjustment to better fit the board width, and especially for being willing to share the STL freely to the community! I plan to put the STL up on Thingiverse/Printables as well and try to get the news out to the community at large.
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> If you want to see pictures, message me off-list and I can send some to you.
> 
> Steve
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