- Flakey Molex(?) connectors - 2 Updates
| Lucifer <LuciferMorningstar@bigpond.com>: Jun 22 10:41AM +1000 On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:24:44 -0700, John Robertson <spam@flippers.com> wrote: >I'd like to argue with the manufacturers, but they stopping making the >games we fix back in the mid to late 90s...so I'm stuck with tinned >contacts and trying to extend their useful life. What about wire wrap and insulation displacement connections? |
| John Robertson <spam@flippers.com>: Jun 21 06:31PM -0700 On 2019/06/21 5:41 p.m., Lucifer wrote: >> games we fix back in the mid to late 90s...so I'm stuck with tinned >> contacts and trying to extend their useful life. > What about wire wrap and insulation displacement connections? No wire wrap used in our commercial games, but an EPROM copier I made up back in the 70s worked when I last tested it in the late 90s. It is sitting in a drawer but unlikely to be used again as I have much better tools these days. Insulation displacement? Don't make me laugh - those are quite the pain over crimped Molex pins. Lots of failures with power connectors on the insulation displacement connectors. Seemed to be related to the pin tension - they didn't grab the pin as well as the original design, certainly not as well as Trifurcon pins. John :-#(# |
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