Electrical Connector

[Matthew Pieklik]

I know this is an old outboard site but I have a question on a relatively new motor 2017 115 Etec A115ghlafi. It will be old in about 40 years. I’m just ahead of the game. Anyhow, I what to move my tilt and trim switch on the outboard to the other side. I have the accessory cable 5006201. To do the job, I have to remove the T&T switch to put it to the other side. This requires that the pins be removed from the connector housing. Then I can slide the nut off the cable that holds the switch in place. I have the proper tools that I bought from CDI. But there is a red piece in the connector preventing me from pushing the pin out of the connector housing.  It moves around in the housing but won’t come out on its own. any suggestions? Thanks , Matt.

 

[crosbyman]

maybe I don’t have it but  can’t you just cut the wires and extend them the other side   by splicying   rather than  taking  whatever  it is apart ?

use self sealing  shrink  tubing  on the splice

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[joecb]

2X what crosbyman said.

But if you are determined…. likely there are one or two plastic “barbs” in the assembly that must be compressed to allow removal of the “red” piece. Look for slots that you can insert a thin metal blade. …. Just a guess, but  !!!

Joe B

[Matthew Pieklik]

Success! I had to use my Dial Tool or Spudger . You telephone people know what I’m talking about. I was able to insert the hard wire end in the hole of the red thing and extract it. Then I used my smallest Jewelers screw driver to release the tab on the  individual connector and pulled it right of the housing. The Dial Tool was used to remove a rotary dial to insert the phone number in the dial and to pick out a pair of wires in a cable or in a terminal box back in the day. All of which has gone by the way side. I have used that Dial Tool for so many other things other than telephone work. Thanks all!

[crosbyman]

my spudgers where burnt orange color to clean up  solder pins on vertical and horizontal  frame blocs  🙂    Telcos where  good employers ( every body had a brother uncle aunt working there)  and  they cared for their employees ……good pay  good conditions I dumped them after 30 years when they decided  our ” collective” experience was not what they needed for the ” new Bell” .   Took my pension and package and ran away friday …. Best decision of my life 🙂  Monday following,   the Cable company  learning how to run a telephone network  took me in and  paid me another 10 years !  Quit at 57… with 2nd pension.  🙂

 

back to oldies

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[jeff-register]

I remember doing telephone work when I worked in bio-med at the hospital running many 25 pair cables when the fax machines apeared. Next came digital systems & we had over cabled the building getting many features on one pair. I have a few of the tools too somewhere?? Lost in the ozone again .

[The Boat House]

Still using a rotary phone. This one was installed
in the house I grew up in almost 70 Years ago.
A modern device compared to most of the motors I still use.
Tubs

[crosbyman]

model 500 black … no good for  voice mail   press 1  press 4   press 8 … works 10 pulses per seconds   at 50% break …hard to kill ain’t it

and it beats   wireless handests  my a mile when the  Hydro is out !!… if you have a lnd line of course.    IP voice is crap.  🙂

 

good thing about them  we had to remember phone numbers of friends and family… today I can’t even call anybody if I don’t have

a phone with the numbers programmed in ….except 911 🙂

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[jeff-register]

Crosbyman,

When we went to digital phones I picked up a phone like Tubs except mine was a 5 line set. I gave it away to a dear friend on route 66 for his business for the vintage look. Those phones were lifetime usage. Brings back fond memories lighting him up with neon lighting being far out of the city where a guy could still see stars at night. Did alot of neon signs in Arizona on RT. 66. It wasc eeducational & fun! I remember using “nurse” tape on the ringer bells to tone them down.

[Matthew Pieklik]

I bet that phone has some weight to it. Built to last, Not how cheap they can build them and make a profit.

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