Got stuck on a stubborn connector for a solid hour at the hangar today

I was fighting with a standard pin extractor on a D-sub, then grabbed a cheap plastic one from a kit I got at the airshow in Oshkosh. Honestly, the plastic one slid right in and popped the pin out clean on the first try. Anyone have a go-to tool for those tiny pins that never seems to let you down?

3 comments

3 Comments

tyler3682mo ago

Man, sometimes the cheap junk just works! (I've had that happen with Harbor Freight picks, of all things.)

lee.cole2mo ago

Come on, that plastic junk is a ticking time bomb. You just got lucky it didn't snap off in the connector.

wesley87312d ago

Oh man, I saw a buddy try that once with a knockoff adapter. @lee.cole would've cringed hard - the thing literally melted inside his port and he had to chip it out with a toothpick lol. Guess he didn't get so lucky.