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Had a QA inspector tell me my crimp method was wrong on a D-sub connector last month
He showed me the backshell strain relief should go on before the pins, not after, and I've been doing it backwards for 12 years - anyone else have a basic habit they had to unlearn?
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janahenderson8d ago
My buddy Mike wired a whole server rack backwards before someone caught it.
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12 years doing it one way and nobody caught it till now. I'd call that a pretty good track record honestly. I've seen guys argue for weeks about the right way to land a wire on a terminal block, and half the time both ways work fine in the real world. That inspector might be technically correct per the manual, but if your crimps held up for over a decade without failures, you were probably doing just fine. The strain relief thing is more about making it easier to service later anyway, not about the connector falling apart. Your mileage may vary, but I think a lot of these "rules" get blown way out of proportion.
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