Anyone tried re-terminating Ribbon/IDC connectors?

[ddvdave]

Hello Forum,

As is typical with these aged EIIIs, the Molex connector between my front panel board and the 60-pin header/connector on the CPU card is intermittent on certain pins.

Has anyone on the forum tried replacing the connector at the end of the 60-pin ribbon cable? I just ordered a replacement IDC "AMP-Latch" connector from Mouser Electronics (Mouser P/N 1-1658621-1). Hopefully I will be able to crimp the connector by using a vise, since I don't have a few hundred bucks to shell out for an AMP-latch crimping tool.

Anyone done this before?

-Dave

[lio.ws]

Hi,

 You can try with this :
http://www.selectronic.fr/pince-a-sertir-les-connercteurs-nappe-idc.html

It works pretty well.

[ddvdave]

Well I managed to re-terminate the 60-pin display connector using a new IDC connector and a small vise.

Now hopefully this will put an end to my intermittent display and random jumping slider values!

So far so good! 

-Dave