{"id":205,"date":"2019-05-19T03:54:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:24:44","slug":"connector-disassembly-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2019\/05\/19\/connector-disassembly-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"Connector disassembly tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>I needed to clean and reattach some \u00a0crimped connectors and figured out an easy way to get them out of the plastic shell.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There is a small tab that needs to be pressed down to allow it to slide back out of the housing. \u00a0I\u2019ve used a tiny screwdriver in the past, but that doesn\u2019t work very well. \u00a0I spotted a ziptie on the workbench that looked about right, and it ended up working perfectly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/82E40A50-357E-4C46-9EFD-466236C0E052-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/82E40A50-357E-4C46-9EFD-466236C0E052-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/82E40A50-357E-4C46-9EFD-466236C0E052.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Push the connector towards the front of the housing (away from the wire), then slide the ziptie into the slot just below the connector from the front. \u00a0It worked better to have the smooth side of the ziptie facing the connector. \u00a0Once it is pushed in fully, pull on the wire from the back of the housing, and it should slide out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-203\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4BC3EB9D-0F08-47D1-9D55-422310D34776-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4BC3EB9D-0F08-47D1-9D55-422310D34776-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4BC3EB9D-0F08-47D1-9D55-422310D34776.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-202\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/B231C158-08F2-4A25-8E9A-BB52326C92F3-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/B231C158-08F2-4A25-8E9A-BB52326C92F3-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/B231C158-08F2-4A25-8E9A-BB52326C92F3.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/06D19FE9-631D-4E90-A1DB-5CAD9F74F320-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/06D19FE9-631D-4E90-A1DB-5CAD9F74F320-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/06D19FE9-631D-4E90-A1DB-5CAD9F74F320.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A slow wire wheel makes it easy to clean the connector. \u00a0You may need to bend the little tab on the connector a little if it\u2019s gotten mashed down too much.<\/p>\n<p>To reinstall the connector in the housing, just push it in again until you hear the little tab click into place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I needed to clean and reattach some \u00a0crimped connectors and figured out an easy way to get them out of the plastic shell. There is a small tab that needs to be pressed down to allow it to slide back out of the housing. \u00a0I\u2019ve used a tiny screwdriver in the past, but that doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camaro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bracketracer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}