[Baldy18]

I'm looking to conect the L5 bridges on my Palamino Athlon XP 1800+s in order to use them in an MP configuration and I'm looking for the best, cheap way to do this.

[ookabooka]

nail polish for gaps (prefer to use this even though its not necesary on the L5's. Just for practice for the L1's) And rear defogger kit you can find at any car parts store. . . Then a toothpick. . Costs you about 10 bucks total.

[Baldy18]

should I connect them with a pencil first to make sure it would work?

Can the defogge kit be removed or redone if necessary?

[ookabooka]

pencil trick doesn't work on palomino cores. . . It has too much resistance. You can remove the defogger with nail polish remover, and the nail polish at the same time! If it is a green processor, you should first scrape the contacts a bit with the tooth pick and maybe some nail polish remover, since there is a plastic-like coating over it.

[John C.]

Originally posted by Baldy18
I'm looking to conect the L5 bridges on my Palamino Athlon XP 1800+s in order to use them in an MP configuration and I'm looking for the best, cheap way to do this.

Just to let you know that the pit does not have to be "insulated" first before closing that MP enabling L5. Reason is closing the L5 connects it to Ground, so grounding to a sub-surface ground plane in the pit does the same as insulating before closing across the top of insulation. You could even verify with multimeter continuity check to any surface ground.

http://www.beachlink.com/candjac/index.htm link to Final Decoding Palomino article, several paragraphs discuss this issue with link to original discoverers of this mod.
John C.