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Hello,
I work a lot with Molex Mini Fit Jr. 555x series pins. I have the female extraction tool, the 2 pin flat thing.
But I need to remove the male pins. The tool should be round and hallow, very small to push the legs in on the pins. There are so many people sell Molex pin removers but they are all too big.
With as popular as the mini fit jr’s are, I would have thought they would be a dime a dozen.
The only extraction tool Molex lists for that series is the 11030044 which is the one that looks like a tweezers , these contacts are square so a round extraction tool will not work with them . In the link below it shows all the contacts that this tool will work with . And below that link is a link for all the tools for the Minifit JR series that Molex has to offer .
I have the tweezer tool. It works for the mating pin, but I am trying to remove the male pins. Or what I am calling male pins. The tweezer is for the female pin, what do I use for the male pins? There are extraction tools out there but they are all too big. It needs to encompass the roundness of the pin, push the retaining tabs at the bottom to release from the housing. Not sure why this is so hard to find and communicate. Everyone winds up thinking I am talking about the female pin and the tweezer tool (which works pretty good for the female pins).
Amazing. Those are all the female pins in the pictures. There are mating pins those pins plug into and those are the one’s that I am trying to extract. haha Its like the whole world only uses the female side of the pin.
These are the same pins and connectors used in PC’s / Computers, from the PSU to the motherboard. Or any extension type or Y type cable, they have both Male and Female pins. Maybe what is confusing is that they use Male pins in the Female connectors and female pins in the male connectors.
Or, the male pins are in connectors that get soldered to PCBs, by design, they never had male pins in crimp form for insertion into an external connector. ?
Well, I must apologize. Out of disbelief and frustration, I took the 2 prong extraction tool to the male pin and sure enough there is a little channel the prongs fall into and release the retaining pins!!! Frustrating I had the right tool all along. hehe Thank you everyone for the input and guidance. I was totally expecting a spring loaded tool the would fit around the pin and push it out. Closing this topic!