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Originally Posted by kbs71
I just priced a 12 pin MIL spec connector $860.00, for both sides, backshell and pins. This doesn't include the special tooling required to crimp the pins (you can't just use a regular crimper, it take a "calibrated" crimper to attach the wires to the pins). So yo guys that are thinking "Hi-tech aircraft parts, COOL", Hope you got REALLY fat wallets. Besides a lot of aircraft manufacturers interior connectors are going to the same type connectors as the Molex, i.e; Snap together. It's cheaper.
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Not to mention the milspec insertion tool.
I should have taken any handfuls when I left the Navy. I used to clean out drawers of them on the submarine to save space. Can't tell you how many I tossed.
A good joke on junior officers first reporting to the boat was to stand out of eyeshot but within earshot and tell your buddy that you were going to do some amphenols after lunch. It would eventually make it back to the wardroom as the young officer was doing his duty...reporting drug use to the captain.
Oh yeah...and even better is having him go back and get 50 feet of fallopian tube from the womb locker.
I just crack myself up.
Until I made Chief...I acted like a hooligan.
Tim