11-03-0044 Connector Accessories, Mini-Fit Jr Extraction Tool, For the removal of mini-fit jr. Tm crimped terminals series from their housings

I bought a kit to add a light to a miter saw. It came with a cable harness to adapt the two. While installing it, the cable pulled out of the connector, and I got this tool to recrimp the pin. The tool works great if there is a wire connected to a pin. If one pushes the wire into the connector, and then insert the tool, the pin comes out quite easily. The pin with no wire did not come out. I suppose that if I had a small enough tweezer, that I could have made it work. I was able to use the one pin where the wire was still attached, and bought a new connector and pins separately, and could reuse the pin with the wire, and recrimp the other wire to another pin. I didn't adequately crimp the wire the first time, and couldn't get that pin out of the second connector either.tldr: Difficult to remove a pin which has no connected wire.

I paid $14 for these. Before I purchased them, I used a pair from work which were purchased from Newark or one of those places for $114. The $14 pair worked just as well, can't beat the price and quality.

Wear a glove if you don't want the end to hurt your hand (you must push VERY hard). It is difficult to jam the tool into the Molex housing and seems a little short (sometimes didn't reach). The metal bends easily, but I wouldn't pay more for a better metal. Although more difficult to use, a smashed paper clip can be used when this tool failed to release the pin.

I found this tool unacceptable, I could extract some pins/sockets, but many I couldn't. It comes down to metal thickness of the tool: it has to be thin enough to slip into the channel between the pin/socket and the wall of the housing, but at the same time it has to be thick enough or stiff enough to push the tabs inward. I found that much of the time the metal was too thin or flimsy to exert enough force on the tabs. If it was a tiny bit thicker, I mean just barely, it would do the job. It all comes down to quality control of the manufacturer insuring that the thickness tolerance is exact, and I'm afraid they don't.

I had a cable that connected two PCIE 6 pin connectors to one PCIE 8 pin. Unfortunately, it turned out I needed to adapt two PCIE 6 pin connectors to an 8 pin CPU connector, which no one makes.This tiny little tool saved the day, and allowed me to rearrange the pins on the 8 pin connector to what I needed.Like the directions say, be careful that the prongs go on the OUTSIDE of the pin, which is harder than you might think. Once you get that right, push it in, and a gentle (gentle!) tug removes the pin.

If the wire is not still connected to the connector it will release but won’t come all the way out.

Works great on minifit jr connectors that circular extractors don’t work for.

This one worked perfectly for the job. I should have gotten this before I got the other ones that ended up in the trash lol