Scott Dorsey wrote:
David Morgan \(MAMS\) wrote:

You can probably find what you need here....

http://www.audiogear.com/EdcELcoCart.html

But, as Richard mentioned, unless you're a soldering fool, the tools
alone
(and don't think you can do it without an 'extractor' in the event
you make
an error) will run you right around $400.


and Edac Extractor tool will run around $60, to $100. I never bothered
with the insertion tool, you can use a pair of long needle nose plyers.




If you are really crazy, you can insert and remove pins using a
dental pick
and a hemostat. It takes a lot longer than using the proper tools,
but as
field expedients go, it can be done.

BUT, Whirlwind will charge you a lot less for a breakout cable than
it will
cost for you to buy the tooling, or for what your time is worth to do
it
without the tooling.

You can do Bendix connectors by soldering to the crimp pins and
inserting
with a hemostat too, but it won't pass military specs.
--scott


The major pain in building Edac/ Elco connectors is getting all the
cables into the shell when you are done. You can use 18 AWG teflon tube
to cover the solder on pins. The teflon will work good for insulation
as well as a bit of strain relief. Some people use heat shrink, or
hellerman sleaves, but that's more crap to squeeze into the shell.

Also there are a few standards of ELCO pinouts. The Soundcraft one is
the good one (16 channels onto a 56 pin block) well it's the best laid
out one. Ring out the connector with a meter to figure out what is the
"Right One"