Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?

Capitol wrote:
Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?
Nope that is how you are supposed to do it- with a very fine iron. They
are called solder buckets.
I also fit tiny heat shrink sleeves on alternate pins. a touch with the
iron does the shrink fine.

On 19/09/16 16:25, Capitol wrote:
Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?

Might a half butchered but otherwise ready assembled cable with a male
socket end fit these terminals from the inside?

OTOH I've done these with a hot small tipped iron, leaded solder with
flux, as short a time as possible. Could suggest alcohol to reduce the
shakes, and numb the pain from nursing finger burns.

Or ask at your local chinese takeaway or mobile phone shop. They will
know someone that does it in their sleep.

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Adrian C

On Monday, September 19, 2016 at 4:24:55 PM UTC+1, Capitol wrote:
Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?

Tin the pins , tin the wire ends, hold together , apply iron and reflow into a joint, add flux if you really have to, fresh leadtatstic solder won`t require a touch up, sub min Ds are a real pain.

+1 for heatshrink, *before* making the joint...

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Adrian Caspersz wrote:
On 19/09/16 16:25, Capitol wrote:
Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?

Might a half butchered but otherwise ready assembled cable with a male
socket end fit these terminals from the inside?

OTOH I've done these with a hot small tipped iron, leaded solder with
flux, as short a time as possible. Could suggest alcohol to reduce the
shakes, and numb the pain from nursing finger burns.

Or ask at your local chinese takeaway or mobile phone shop. They will
know someone that does it in their sleep.

Why not simply buy DIN sockets with proper solder tags? The sort where you
can secure the wire before soldering?

Some just love taking the difficult way. ;-)

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*What was the best thing before sliced bread?

Dave Plowman London SW
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Adrian wrote:

On 19/09/16 16:25, Capitol wrote:

Just fitting some mini din sockets into a box. The terminating
cylinders are about 0.8mm dia od. Anyone found a better method than
solder to connect these pins to a piece of wire?


Might a half butchered but otherwise ready assembled cable with a male
socket end fit these terminals from the inside?


OTOH I've done these with a hot small tipped iron, leaded solder with
flux, as short a time as possible. Could suggest alcohol to reduce the
shakes, and numb the pain from nursing finger burns.


Or ask at your local chinese takeaway or mobile phone shop. They will
know someone that does it in their sleep.

Why not simply buy DIN sockets with proper solder tags? The sort where you
can secure the wire before soldering?

Some just love taking the difficult way. ;-)


These don't seem to exist in mini din. I did look at using a
sacrificial mini din cable, but very few 8 wire cables seem to exist and
the wire size is generally a mystery.