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I need to build a custom electrical connection for a hobby project. Back in the days when I used to help build cable, we had stocks of male and female pins that we inserted into RS-232 cable terminators. I would like to get solderable pins/recepticles of this type to make my own connector.

What would these be called in major catalog?

It looks like

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has the MALES under "MOLEX Pins", MP-100 but not the females.

I thought "contacts" would be the right term but, Digikey e.g., "Contacts, see connectors" nothing under Connectors, contacts.

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faceman28208
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I had precisely this problem the week before last when I used the last of about 200 I had. I thought they were called Molex receptacles too. Go to

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and search for HP1260 in the top left keyword/cat.no box.. Click picture for an enlarged view. That's what I was looking for. $4.25AU for a packet of 25. Ouch. They have an insulation holding ring crimp and a further crimp to grip the bared wire. You break them off the bearer strip. I add a tiny amount of solder and some heatshrink. Slide firmly onto a .9mm PCB stake. This is an Australian website and you're probably not in Australia. But if this is what you have in mind and if you are desperate..... PH

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Peter Howard

Might be called "insertable contacts" or "insertable pins/sockets".

There are many connector families that have insertable contacts - since you mention the ones you used were in RS-232 connectors, look for Canon or AMP D-Subminature connectors. Both makes come in insertable-contact versions, and the insertable pins and sockets should be listed near the connectors that they fit.

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