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Appreciation post: The weirdest thing I keep seeing with D-sub connector pins
I swear, every time I'm helping a new tech at our hangar in Tampa, they're trying to seat those tiny pins with a flathead screwdriver. It's like a rite of passage that goes wrong. I've seen three guys in the last two months bend the same pin on a 37-pin connector for a nav system, turning a 20 minute job into a half day of ordering parts. The proper insertion tool costs maybe 15 bucks. What's the strangest 'shortcut' you've had to un-teach someone on the line?
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the_jason15d ago
Grab the actual pin insertion tool, it looks like a tiny hollow screwdriver. Show them how to slide the pin into the sleeve until it clicks. I keep a spare tool in my box because people lose them constantly.
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