[hpsdr] LPU Assembly

[Ray Anderson]

A while back I had the need to crimp a bunch of Molex connector pins.
Not wanting to pop $250+ for a crimper I was looking around the
connector department at Fry's and found a cheap knock-off designed for
the same series of Molex pins that went for about $15. Probably not
industrial strength, but it worked just fine for my purposes.

But then, as Scott and others have mentioned, a pair of needle nose
pliers, some solder and a little care works OK too.


-Ray WB6TPU

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hpsdr-bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org [mailto:hpsdr-
> bounces at lists.openhpsdr.org] On Behalf Of Scott Cowling
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:20 PM
> To: hpsdr at openhpsdr.org
> Subject: Re: [hpsdr] LPU Assembly
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> Hi Gordon,
> 
> For my test build I used a pair of needle nose pliers, carefully
> crimped the sockets and then soldered them. Use the solder sparingly
> to avoid flowing in into the socket itself.
> 
> A somewhat tedious process, but it actually works better than the
crimper.
> 
> 73,
> Scotty WA2DFI
> 
> At 16:53 2009-05-07 -0400, you wrote:
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> >
> >I just came to the computer to ask about the heat sink/regulator
> >issue and found the problem solved.  I then went on to the next
> >step, which calls for a Molex crimper.  I then went to Allied's web
> >site and found it cost $252.07.  So, my next question is, what
> >advice is there on how to proceed without the crimper?
> >
> >Gordon, KA2NLM
> >
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