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Molex Connector

steelandcanvas

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I have a 6 pin "Molex Connector" and need to swap places with 2 of the pins. What kind of tool do you use to do this, and where would I purchase one. I could cut and splice, but I would rather do it the clean way. It's not on anything military, but I thought some of you electronic/commo Gurus would know what to do. It's actually on a rollerball in an Atari Centipedes game. PM me if you need a photo of the connector. TIA.
 

Jones

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Look down into the Molex connector and you should see some little tabs sticking out if the sides of the pin or socket that engage the connector body. These you have to retract-- A small dia. piece of hobby shop brass tubing works just fine. It should just slip over the pin or socket. The trick is to push the wire with pin forward as you slide the tubing into position; this takes the stress off of the little locking tabs and allows the tubing to compress them in order to pull backwards out of the plastic connector body. When you're ready to reassemble, just make sure the tabs are protruding a little so that they engage when inserted.
Hope this helps--
 
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