On 12/26/2016 04:14 PM, Tony Duell wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 9:07 PM, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: >>> On Dec 26, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Tony Duell <ard.p850...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> ... >>> I hadn't realised that they were printed on aluminium. Ouch!. I also >>> don't know how they are fixed to the plastic header panel, my plastic >>> panel is 'empty' and I don't see any adhesive residue. Maybe some >>> kind of double-sided tape? >> No, the aluminum is adhesive-backed (with a rather potent adhesive). >> It's similar to what you see in serial number plates on machinery. I >> have somewhere a PDP-11 banner plate by itself, with the wax paper >> backing covering the adhesive still in place. If your plastic bracket is >> clean looking, it may never have had the panel stuck to it in the first >> place. > Odd...The chap who gave me the rack removed the panel (and the fan, > and the stabiliser feet) for transport and gave me a box with them in. He > commented that as I was putting a PDP8e in it, I'd probably not want the > banner that was there (I am pretty sure that the original contents of this > H960 was some kind of PDP11 system). > > Anyway, spend the day cleaning dust off parts, stripping the fan and power > controller, etc. I did not notice any adhesive residue on the plastic header > panel. And I think I would have done. > > So perhaps the header was blank, or the banner just pushed in (perhaps > somebody forgot to remove the backing paper...). > > -tony >
Sounds like the banner plate for my 11T (Qbus 11 in a 50inch rack) the banner holder was such that it could slid in from the end if you took off the plastic end stop. It has the PDP-11 in in the older reds scheme on thin maybe .040" aluminium. Allison