Step 2. Install the back shell assembly around the DB-9 connec
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tor and cable(s):
•
select the parts needed: (1) the two shells that
will be arranged to contain the DB-9 connector
and the cables (and the strain relief attached to
the cables), (2) two long half-threaded screws
and two shaped washers, to attach the whole as
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sembly to the KAM’98, and (3) two long,
fully-threaded screws to connect the shells to
each other (not the long screws that are only half
threaded — those will be used later, to attach
the DB-9 connector to the KAM’98) and the two
nuts to attach to these two screws.
• beginning with one of the back shell parts
(which will be the bottom shell during assem-
bly), fit the DB-9 connector into the slot at the
wide end of the shell (with pins facing away
from the shell and cables resting inside the
shell), with the backplane of the DB-9 connector
fitting behind the lip that protrudes slightly from
the bottom of the shell,
•
tuck the cable(s) into the semi-circular gap at the
small end of the shell and, after any necessary
adjustments, fit the strain relief assembly into
the space between the end of the shell where the
cable exits the shell and the pair of threaded col
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umns (with holes for screws),
•
place one of the shaped washers on each of the
long, half-threaded screws, so they are next to
the head of the screw (with the bent ends of the
washers facing away from the heads of the
screws),
•
fit the top shell onto the bottom shell (which
now contains the connector and cable), so the
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