[GreenKeys] ST-8000A DOA, but it now runs

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Jeff,

If you are using one of the red and white plastic (one-time use) plastic 
insertion/extraction tools, try aligning the slots in the tip with the major 
diameter of the ().

In a message dated 6/13/2009 11:20:07 PM Central Daylight Time, 
jangus at socal.rr.com writes: 
> Roy Morgan wrote:
> >Someone posted earlier that he'd bought extra pins, (and  
> >maybe an insertion tool).
> That was me. I'll be out of town until Thursday (18th)
> 
> A word of warning about the crimp pins on the connectors. Apparently mine
> were crimped by yard apes using a pair of pliers instead of the correct
> tool.
> The result is the hack (wire) side of the pin looks like () instead of O
> and you
> can't get the extraction tool past it to remove the pin. Sigh....
> 
> Always something.
> 

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