MOLEX

[W5EUQ]

To remove the pins from "various plugs"in an emergency, like Molex 
plugs....... I take the metal tube out of a ball point pen and use it.  
If it doesn't fit without modification, I split the end and widen the 
end of it until it works. 
  And they have worked just fine too.   Bob   TV/Radio Broadcaster

History:
Being a broadcaster, and having been at the transmitter site at 3am in 
the morning and needing to improvise, this motivates one to figure out 
things like that.   At more than one transmitter site, I've made them 
like that and put the "home brew tool" in the tool box and used it over 
and over. 

Of course the best thing is to go to the local parts supplier or Newark 
or other suppliers and buy the proper tool "before they are 
needed"....      20-20 hindsight.... 


John Bauer wrote:
> Tools for removal of various size Molex pins are readily available at better 
> electronic supply stores and by mail order.  Some look like jeweler's 
> screwdrivers except that the removal end is like the "tool" that Doc made from hobby 
> tubing, othjers are not quite that fancy. If you use Molex connectors a lot, 
> they are real lifesavers. (Fingers, too)
>
> There are pictures at this site to which I have no connection at all. I have 
> never even bought from them because there is a local store that stocks these 
> things:
>
> http://www.action-electronics.com/molex.htm#Tool
>
> 73,  
>
> John,  W4AWM
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> This list is a public service of the City of Tempe, Arizona
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subscription control - http://www.tempe.gov/lists/control.asp?list=BOATANCHORS
> To post - BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
> Archives - http://listserv.tempe.gov/archives/BOATANCHORS.html
>
>
>   

-----------------------------------------------------------
This list is a public service of the City of Tempe, Arizona
-----------------------------------------------------------

Subscription control - http://www.tempe.gov/lists/control.asp?list=BOATANCHORS
To post - BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV
Archives - http://listserv.tempe.gov/archives/BOATANCHORS.html