whoamonga
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OT: Carefully Extracting Pins from a TINY Molex Connector
Okay, i'm doing an intricate LCD Displpay swap on a Powerbook G4 for a friend of mine.
Got the replacement panel in and....whomp whomp... what used to be a 4-pin connector, was now a 6-pin connector!!!
I'm going to try and do without the extra 2 pins, and just use the 4 that were there before. They are the same colors, and in the same position, so it's worth a shot.
So the question is... how do i make a 6-pin connector, 4 pins...
I thought about splicing the wires, but they're awfully tiny. So i thought about removing the pins from the molex, and inserting them into the 4-slot molex. Only problem with this is, I've never done it before and don't have an extractor...
So does anybody have any advice on how to get these tiny pins outta this connector so I can replace them in another one. Other than the number of slots, the connectors are identical...
Thanks tremendously in advance!
Here's a pic of the tiny molex: http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk259/whoamonga/misc repairs/molex003.jpg
Okay, i'm doing an intricate LCD Displpay swap on a Powerbook G4 for a friend of mine.
Got the replacement panel in and....whomp whomp... what used to be a 4-pin connector, was now a 6-pin connector!!!
I'm going to try and do without the extra 2 pins, and just use the 4 that were there before. They are the same colors, and in the same position, so it's worth a shot.
So the question is... how do i make a 6-pin connector, 4 pins...
I thought about splicing the wires, but they're awfully tiny. So i thought about removing the pins from the molex, and inserting them into the 4-slot molex. Only problem with this is, I've never done it before and don't have an extractor...
So does anybody have any advice on how to get these tiny pins outta this connector so I can replace them in another one. Other than the number of slots, the connectors are identical...
Thanks tremendously in advance!
Here's a pic of the tiny molex: http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk259/whoamonga/misc repairs/molex003.jpg
