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Originally Posted by chicochapman
To my mind,it's a very intricate design involving precision injection mouldings and tricky assembly.
The pink bit at the end is a locking device; there was one at the other end but I couldn't work out how to remove it so I had to drill it out.
The forked piece,although appearing gold plated does not make any electrical contact, it just appears to be a locating device.
These must have been made specially for MGR with the correct colour wires pre-installed. The pins appear to be gold plated as do the interiors of the sockets although you need a good magnifying glass to spot this.
The female connectors themselves appear to be a miracle of modern miniaturisation as the "shoe" which carries the wire actually fits into the outer casing which has a sprung retaining clip with the square end folded over to leave an aperture which just fits the square pins( 0.6mm).
How do they do that?
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You have to wonder why they're so unreliable?
From what I've seen, they don't provide enough positive contact between each half. A bullet connector is miles better.
TC