This weeks installment of toolpr0n for you: connector contact insertion and removal tools (a small assortment of)
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Lower part on the first pic are all Mil-listed, upper part around half. This is a field which is likely to rub the inadequacy of one's kit right under your nose. Wayyyy to go until I am able to handle just all of those connectors which I have already encountered, and just more so if I include all those which I am likely to encounter.
Having had to professionally purchase some of that tackle in the past I shudder at what that tool case represents in "new replacement cost" real money.
Indeed. And aquisition was not exactly free. It is about 1/3 regular purchases, 1/3 surplus and ebay and the remainder found/migrated/contributed by others.
Yeeowwch! Nice collection of roach clips; you've got one for every popular variety and some of the more esoteric buds, I'll wager.
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No, seriously... that's a habit that'll eat you out of grocery money almost as fast as photography... Can't count how many times I've wished for ones not in my little Cheap China kit, or had to spend umpty minutes bending/Dremeling a bit of sheet-metal or tubing to make "something that works" without buggering up a connector too bad.
More power tooya, my friend!
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If you're feeling really generous to the community... some close-up pics with mic'd-out dimensions would be a huge contribution. Even if it's just a few of the ones you've used most.
Cheers,
mnem
This spoo is not fresh.