The monitor that I have has a 15 pronged male plug that plugs into my
computer. Several of the prongs are badly bent, precluding plugging in
the monitor. Any suggestions for repair, and if not, are there
replacement connecting plugs available?

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The monitor that I have has a 15 pronged male plug that plugs into my
computer. Several of the prongs are badly bent, precluding plugging in
the monitor. Any suggestions for repair, and if not, are there
replacement connecting plugs available?

Hi...

If you just want to plug it in once and leave it without
the necessity of changing monitors once in a while, then
you might be able to carefully straighten them with a
pair of long nose pliers, insert it once, and be in
business.

If that won't do, then you may be better off just picking
up a dead monitor and salvaging the whole input cable
from it.

Take care.

Ken

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The monitor that I have has a 15 pronged male plug that plugs into my
computer. Several of the prongs are badly bent, precluding plugging in
the monitor. Any suggestions for repair, and if not, are there
replacement connecting plugs available?

Radio Shack at least used to sell the connector, put installing it is no
picnic. I would just replace the whole cable, if you can't find one locally
I can send you one for the cost of shipping.

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It's called a 15-way High Density Male D-Connector. Replacing
it can be tricky, especially if there's a big "blob" of a
ferrite core on the cable right next to the plug. But it is
usually possible with care.

Colin


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The monitor that I have has a 15 pronged male plug that plugs into my
computer. Several of the prongs are badly bent, precluding plugging in
the monitor. Any suggestions for repair, and if not, are there
replacement connecting plugs available?

Colin McCormick wrote:

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It's called a 15-way High Density Male D-Connector. Replacing
it can be tricky, especially if there's a big "blob" of a
ferrite core on the cable right next to the plug. But it is
usually possible with care.

The proper name is HDE15:

The H is for high density.
The D is for "D" shell, the shape of the connector.
The E is for the size of the shell.
The 15 is the maximum number of positions for pins.

BTW, this is the same shell size as the "DE" connector used for
serial ports on IBM compatible computers.

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