[Milsurplus] Attaching cable to MS connectors

[Jim Haynes]

Thanks for all the advice, even if it wasn't quite what I had in mind.

This morning I stumbled onto this web site

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=_GLeCt_u3U8

about soldering to cup-type contacts.

What I really meant to be asking about, and one responder did make a
suggestion in this direction, is how to arrange the cable and connector
and workbench to make the job easier when it is a connector with many
pins.  50+ years ago I toured a factory where I remember women attaching
connectors to cable stock, but I don't remember the particulars of how
the work was arranged.  Maybe the cable stock came down from overhead
so the connector could be face-down on the workbench, but I just don't
remember.  So the advice I need is from somebody who has seen it done
in a factory.  But I may just stumble through it like I have in the past.

I don't have any sleeving to put over the pins, so will just have to be
careful there isn't anything sticking out that will let them short
together.


jhhaynes at earthlink dot net