[Shop-talk] Electronic connector question

[Paul Parkanzky]

When I was a grad student in East Lansing, there was a place called
"Fulton Radio Supply" in Lansing that I'd go to whenever I needed a
really obscure electronics bit.  It was the sort of place that had a
huge selection and people behind the counter that knew what they were
talking about.

Try to find a place like that around you.  Assuming the connector is
reusable, you could probably take the wire and the connector and leave
with them together for a reasonable price.  And if the connectors are
one time use, they'd be the place to go to source another.

The hard part is finding a place like that.  They always seem to be a
hole in the wall in a nasty part of town.

You said the cable is cut.  Is there a reason you can't splice the
wires back together with heat-shrink on each conductor and then on the
outer cable as well so that it is water-tight?

-Paul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Chris Kantarjiev <cak at dimebank.com> wrote:
> There are about four zillion varieties of such things, unfortunately.
>
> You could start browsing the digikey catalog on line and see if
> you can find a visual match - but the extraction tool will probably
> be very expensive.