Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors

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Wed 8 Feb 2023 02:40
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - edlithgow

Hard to convey how much I loathe and detest these.

IF I ever succeed in getting them off I cut the barbs off and silicone grease them, to make it easier next time, but one has to get them off first.

The force and duration involved is quite likely to break wires. In particular, pliers slipping off are likely to knick them.

Lack of ""the knack" may well be a factor, but it seems likely that there may be special tools, though probably not in Taiwan.

Anyone know of any?

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Wed 8 Feb 2023 14:23
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - Oli rag

It's usual in my experience for pins and sockets with barbs to have a special extract tool to get them out. Some need an insert tool also to get them back in.

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Wed 8 Feb 2023 23:48
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - focussed

You mean tools to remove the male/ female pins from multi-pin connectors like this?

tinyurl.com/53axt576

Only $19.99 mellican dollar.

Edited by focussed on 08/02/2023 at 23:49

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Thu 9 Feb 2023 03:51
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - edlithgow

You mean tools to remove the male/ female pins from multi-pin connectors like this?

tinyurl.com/53axt576

Only $19.99 mellican dollar.

Nope.Y'all are too sophisticated for me.

A whole new area of auto-electric horror is hinted at there, but I wont think about that today.

Just meant separating the standard plastic multi-pin blocks with (largely unnecessay) retaining barbs on the outside.

I had a fuse panel to take off with a lot of big ones and it was a real pig, plus it turned out to have had a few "trapped wire" legacy work-arounds from previous fellow bodgers (though these would be pros) and I now dont know where they went.

Probably doesn't mater. I suspect general loom failure means its doomed anyway.

Maybe I just needed bigger parallel-jaw cranked pliers.

Maybe sometimes one could put "pips" on them, maybe with tiny cable ties, to depress the barbs while pulling, twisting, swearing etc

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Fri 10 Feb 2023 21:02
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - focussed

The multi connectors are made like they are with "barbs" to make sure that the silicon rubber seal remains compressed to keep water out.

This explains how to separate these plugs/sockets on a VW Eos (whatever that is)

www.vweosclub.com/threads/simple-tool-to-separate-.../

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Fri 10 Feb 2023 21:41
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - Crickleymal

The multi connectors are made like they are with "barbs" to make sure that the silicon rubber seal remains compressed to keep water out.

This explains how to separate these plugs/sockets on a VW Eos (whatever that is)

www.vweosclub.com/threads/simple-tool-to-separate-.../

That's useful to know.

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Sun 12 Feb 2023 10:48
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - edlithgow

The multi connectors are made like they are with "barbs" to make sure that the silicon rubber seal remains compressed to keep water out.

This explains how to separate these plugs/sockets on a VW Eos (whatever that is)

www.vweosclub.com/threads/simple-tool-to-separate-.../

No silicone rubber seals on any automotive connectors I’ve ever had. Whole different world. Maybe the de-latcher rod would work on ordinary connectors too though. The problem I find is that there is so much friction from the contacts they are hard to separate even after I’ve cut the latch off. They could do with some designed in levering surface: Can’t say I’ve had a problem with spontaneous separation after removing the latch, but I suppose it’s a Sod’s law cert those circumstances could arise, perhaps during the Paris-Dakar
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Sun 12 Feb 2023 23:44
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - edlithgow
Perhaps one could use a pin to depress the latch and leave it in place while levering pulling twisting and swearing, hence getting around the multi-mitt requirement?

Or maybe a plastic tooth pick? The sort with the floss bow are fairly robust.

I bought a box of pins for back probing circuits, and it’ll be a while before I’ve lost them all. If I come across any undoctored stragglers hiding out in my wiring loom like Japanese patrols that do not know the war is over, I’ll try it.

Probably going to have to drop the bomb soon though.

Edited by edlithgow on 12/02/2023 at 23:45

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Sun 19 Feb 2023 03:06
Any - Loathsome Big (barbed) Multi-pin Connectors - edlithgow

Floss-bow toothpick quite effective at un-latching stubborn wiper modules from fuse panel.

Access is unusually good there, but seems to have potential as an unlatching tool

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