IBM Model F DIN connector repair

--- On Sun, 12/30/12, Michael B. Brutman <mbbrutman-cctalk at brutman.com> wrote: Yes, I ran into this exact problem a couple of years ago. And I just cut the plug off and soldered a new one on. Sure, I lost the pretty IBM molded plug, but, now I have a keyboard that works. A keyboard that doesn't work is useless. And it's not like IBM keyboards are rare or anything. I don't know if you're going to be able to fix this without doing the same or similar. The problem is that the wires have broken free from the pins, and there is no way that I know of to disassemble the connector without destroying it. Unless you can somehow get really creative with a heat gun? I've disassembled molded plugs before, but it always involved cutting the housing apart, then replacing the removed housing with something standard (i.e. a molded 13W3, cut off/heat gunned from it's housing, fitted into a standard one after re-use) Another thing I've done in the past was really for replacing broken off pins, but you can drill a hole down into the connector and really ram something down in there - in my case, it was a custom mini-DIN on a set of amplified speakers. I drilled a tiny hole next to the broken stub of the pin, and heated a straight pin and jammed it into there with pliers. Once clipped flush with the other pins, the repair worked just fine for years. Perhaps, if only one pin is intermittent (use your meter to check), you could do something similar? No idea if this would help in this situation, since I think the problem is the connection at the back of the pin itself, and if you pull out the old pin, I don't know what, if anything, would be available to connect to. -Ian