Draker
Well Known Member
Removing D-Sub pins is frustrating
If anyone in the Bay Area is good at removing those little high density D-sub pins and is willing to help a crazed man out over the weekend, let me know--you got a 6-pack of your favorite beverage waiting for you in return. I've bent 3 or 4 of those cheesy flimsy extractor tools and have not even gotten one pin out. No amount of wiggling will get any tool around those little pins. I'm ready to cut the wires and order new connectors at this point. So frustrating. If you have the proper tool/technique and can help a brother out, please send a PM. I'd be grateful.
EDIT: Took a deep breath, drank the beer myself, and went at it again. I took one of my least-mangled tools and ground down the end of the "insertion" end until it looked kind of like the extractor, and was able to get em out with that. Still, what a pain!
Off-topic gotcha:
If you're connecting a WAAS GPS to a Garmin GTR 45R transponder, do NOT use RS-232 port 4 on the transponder! It doesn't support GPS/ADS-B. You need to use either port 2 or 3. I couldn't find this fact in Garmin's docs but G3Xpert confirmed it over E-mail (Garmin's E-mail support is fantastic by the way).
If anyone in the Bay Area is good at removing those little high density D-sub pins and is willing to help a crazed man out over the weekend, let me know--you got a 6-pack of your favorite beverage waiting for you in return. I've bent 3 or 4 of those cheesy flimsy extractor tools and have not even gotten one pin out. No amount of wiggling will get any tool around those little pins. I'm ready to cut the wires and order new connectors at this point. So frustrating. If you have the proper tool/technique and can help a brother out, please send a PM. I'd be grateful.
EDIT: Took a deep breath, drank the beer myself, and went at it again. I took one of my least-mangled tools and ground down the end of the "insertion" end until it looked kind of like the extractor, and was able to get em out with that. Still, what a pain!
Off-topic gotcha:
If you're connecting a WAAS GPS to a Garmin GTR 45R transponder, do NOT use RS-232 port 4 on the transponder! It doesn't support GPS/ADS-B. You need to use either port 2 or 3. I couldn't find this fact in Garmin's docs but G3Xpert confirmed it over E-mail (Garmin's E-mail support is fantastic by the way).
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