Floppy Din Cable your thoughts diy

[hobbyhands]

So I very recently purchased and atari st 520. No floppy. And I want to try and connect a gotek through the floppy cable.

 

Problem: the floppy cables seem hard to find, and even the standard(non standard) 14 din parts seem hard to fine. 

 

So what about DIY cable. Din portion 3d printed? Any thoughts? Anyone here done 3d printed connectors already? I have a 3d printer. And can source the pins. I just need to design or build a holder for it.

 

There are several break away pin header like this from amazon. I think I would just need to design a 3d part that holds these in the proper arrangement

 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=header+pins&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Edited November 11, 2019 by hobbyhands
update

[scottinNH]

On 11/11/2019 at 1:29 PM, hobbyhands said:

So I very recently purchased and atari st 520. No floppy. And I want to try and connect a gotek through the floppy cable.

 

Problem: the floppy cables seem hard to find, and even the standard(non standard) 14 din parts seem hard to fine. 

 

So what about DIY cable. Din portion 3d printed? Any thoughts? Anyone here done 3d printed connectors already? I have a 3d printer. And can source the pins. I just need to design or build a holder for it.

 

There are several break away pin header like this from amazon. I think I would just need to design a 3d part that holds these in the proper arrangement

 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=header+pins&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Since your post, it's been done:

https://www.myminifactory.com/object/3d-print-atari-st-floppy-disk-drive-connector-157613

 

FYI:

* The DIN pins are much larger than header pins

* A better design (than above) would be "straight pins through a round PCB adapter", sort-of like what was done for the 8-bit FujiNet

[scottinNH]

NVM... someone's done it:

https://5vsupply.com/products/idc14-to-external-floppy-adapter-with-usb-power