Wellesley, ON
Step stool or sit on glass. Literally takes a couple minutes to do a connector.
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Quoted from RoyF:I'm envious. I just don't work as fast as you, and its worse if I'm contorted into an odd position. I'm the slow and steady type. Take pictures of existing connector, make sure wire color is clearly shown for each wire. Cut wires. Strip wires. Crimp on new pin. Make sure get good crimps on the Trifurcon pins (my crimper requires me to crimp the wire and jacket separately, so 2 crimps for each pin). Repeat for each wire. Test each crimp, just to be sure nothing is loose. Carefully insert wires into new connector in correct order. Insert keying plug. Compare connector one last time to the picture I took before starting. Consider that connector done.
You really need to buy a ratcheting crimper thath doea the wire and jacket at the same time. They arnt that expensive and will save tons of time, plus they hold the new contact so you only need one hand on the crimper.
https://www.amazon.com/HT-225D-Cycle-Ratchet-Crimping-interchangeable/dp/B007JLN93S/ref=mp_s_a_1_3
This is the one I use.
I have literally done hundreds if not thousands of crimps with mine.
Quoted from Pin_Guy:There is just no way in hell I would not replace those with IDCs ... more power to you!
I enjoy doing it. I will never use IDC not as good.
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