Is it possible to remove the pins from 4-pin and other power connectors?

[duragezic]

At my new job I generally make cables and wiring harnesses all day and whatnot. Pretty exciting huh! So I ordered a new compy ugprade, and in another month or so I'm going to get a new case and high quality fans for a quiet, cool, and efficient system. Now I see people buying PSUs with sleeved cables, but I figure I could sleeve them myself. Theres a couple types and sizes of sleeving for cables that I'd imagine I could get a few feet of.

But to slip the sleeving over, I'd need to remove the pins from the plastic connectors from all the wires coming from the PSU. Is there anyway to remove these pins? I put on all types of connectors at work and usually they just require a little screwdriver to flip up a plastic piece so that the pins can be pulled out after they are locked in place (for the times I forget to slip something on then put on the connector then realize it!). But I don't see that these pins can be removed from PSU connectors. Any ideas? I have one from a fan that appears loose and puills out, but I dont know how that happened and its only one pin./

 

[dqniel]

Molex extractor. Cheap from somewhere like www.svc.com If you don't feel like buying one, you can temporarily press in the "hooks" that hold the pins in place with a safety pin or an x-acto blade.

http://www.pctechtalk.com/?m=show&id=306&page=1

 

[Rommels]

And please for the love of all things holy stop the infection that is the word compy...

 

[dqniel]

What's wrong with using that word? compy compy compy

 

[duragezic]

Sweet man, thanks for the info and link. Looks like I'll be pulling out the PSU and making some measurements later today. I can get heatshrink tubing there as well but I'm not too sure if I got a heatgun here. Well I'll just use electrical tape if I can't use a lighter or something to shrink it.


And I didn't know compy was a bad infection. You should check out OT, there is some real dumb sayings that people are just obsessed with there. People purposely replacing every 'the' with 'teh' is retarded.

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Jab-Tech.com and performance-pcs.com carry good sleeving. The cheap $10 kits from SVC are not to be used by me again.

Two weeks ago Harbor Freight had their low-end heat gun on sale (on-line) for $9.95. It has settings for 600 and 1100 watts. Good quality for lite-duty use. I have one.

Do a search of the Cases&Cooling Forum for sleeving. There is much good info to be had.

...Galvanized

 

[dqniel]

DON'T use electrical tape. I've learned from previous experiences. It makes everything all sticky should you ever need to take off the sleeving in the future. Find a heat gun (whether purchased or borrowed) and use heatshrink tubing.

 

[AndrewZorn]

yeah get real heatshrink, usuall comes in sleeving kits,

invest in the tool, it took me like 2hrs just to sleeve one chain with a paperclip,

you can use a hot glue gun or hairdryer instead of a specialized heat gun

 

[Jiggz]

While you're at it you might want to replace your Molex with This

It makes connecting and disconnecting easier. Not to mention the cute colors!

 

[Rommels]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
While you're at it you might want to replace your Molex with This

It makes connecting and disconnecting easier. Not to mention the cute colors!

OMG YES, I got them on mine and I only wonder what took so long to think of them.
What was I thinking, I should ahev thought of this.