Bud, send this to Moss ...... quick, before I do. This should win something.
Larry Hoy
http://home.cwix.com/~larryhoy@cwix.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Bud Krueger
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 5:51 PM
> To: MG List
> Subject: Electrical Connector Disassembly Tool
>
>
> A little trick I learned today:
>
> I wanted to swap a couple of wires in a harness today. Some folks might
> just dig out the wire cutters and crimper or solder or tape, etc..
> Being an OF
> EE I've assembled many connectors where you crimp the pins onto the wires and
> then insert the pins into the socket.
> If you find that you goofed, you dig out the disassembly tool and remove the
> errant pin.
> Virtually all of these common electrical multipin connectors are
> built the same
> way, viz., there is a barb (or two) on the pins that compress while the pin is
> being inserted into the socket and then spring out when the pin is seated,
> thereby preventing their being pulled back out. The disassembly tool
> is simply
> a thinwalled metral tube on a handle. The tube is just large enough
> to fit over
> the pin and small enough in diameter to fit into the pin's socket. You simply
> slide the tool over the pin, which compresses the barbs, and then pull the pin
> back out of the socket. (It's simple when you see it.)
>
> Okay, so what about lbc's? A simple dissasembly tool is
> available to every
> one of us on our cars. It's the metal innards of a single wire
> bullet connector
> coupler. Just take one of the couplers, slide the metal tube about
> half way out
> of the rubber sleeve and ... voila ! You'll find that the tube is just about a
> perfect fit for slipping over the pins in the various connectors in the wiring
> harness to compress the barbs. This allows you to remove the wire
> from the back
> of the connector. This is a convenient way to isolate one circuit without
> having to pull apart a major connector. The pins slip back in quite
> easily with
> no tools required. (Leaving the rubber sleeve on the tube makes a convenient
> grip.)
>
> (Barney --- does this qualify for 'Grapes of Wrath'?)
>
> Bud Krueger
> 52TD
> 77MGB
>
>
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