On 2018 Jan 11 07:56:32, you wrote to me:   
      
    GB>>> The next mini-project is an automatic wire cutter.   
      
    ml>> to be able to cut bundles of wires all the same length?   
      
    GB> Yes.  For example, the right side console uses most of a 125 pin   
    GB> cannon plug. That runs foreward to a bulkhead mounting point.  In   
    GB> order to break that out, I've got to measure and cut a LOT of wire.   
    GB> It's a lot easier if I make an Arduino do it.  (That and I can't aford   
    GB> the ~$1500 for the "real" machine that does that cutting/stripping   
    GB> task.)   
      
   i hear ya! i can't imagine doing 125 wires in one plug but i have sat for days   
   doing 25pin serial cables... the client didn't want to spring for premade ones   
   cut to individual lengths so we sold them a spool of 25 conductor cable and   
   let their guys run it from the office to the individual machines... then i   
   went in and put pins and hoods on each end... this was for injection moulding   
   machines and they didn't want to roll the computer out to each one any more to   
   load their programs... when it was all said and done, they three or four 5-way   
   serial switches to select which machine they were programming and then they   
   ran their program to load the code into it...   
      
   while i still have my pin crimpers (and the above job more than paid for them)   
   i don't do serial/parallel cable maint any more...   
      
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