Hey guys,
I bought one of those mako storm trigger frames last year, and
somewhere along the way I pulled the battery connector out of the 6-pin
plug that connects to the board. Does anyone have any information on this
connector??? I tried radio shack in vain. Brushfire wants to charge me
like 30 bucks + parts. Bruce maybe you can help me on this one?

Thanks,
Charlie

"FireWalker877" <dragon451@ignmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hey guys,
> I bought one of those mako storm trigger frames last year, and
> somewhere along the way I pulled the battery connector out of the 6-pin
> plug that connects to the board. Does anyone have any information on this
> connector??? I tried radio shack in vain. Brushfire wants to charge me
> like 30 bucks + parts. Bruce maybe you can help me on this one?
>
> Thanks,
> Charlie
>

Actually, I just replaced mine. The wire from the connector to the solenoid
had broken. I tried to just solder the lead back onto the pin and it worked
for maybe 15 minutes. I finally gave up and decided to just replace the
connector because it wasn't snapping into place anyhow and I knew I had to
re-crimp some connectors on it if I wanted something that would actually
stay. I used some 2mm spaced molex generic connector and a matching molex
header to fit it and crimped my own. The problem was I didn't want to do
the research as to what crimp connector to find PLUS have to find an
associated molex crimper. Instead, I tried to just solder the lead back
onto the pin and it worked for maybe 15 minutes. I used some connectors we
already had at work to do this.

This is what I came up with:

http://tinyurl.com/5r9s5

Now, I haven't played with it yet but I've fired it in the backyard and it
seems to be doing just fine. The connector is held on there pretty well
just by the friction of the pins to the connector.

This is the website that gave me a starting place on where to find the
stuff.

http://airsoldier.com/~haveblue/tech/mako/

it says the socket is a Molex 53014-0610. I'm not sure it's right. I did
a little looking on digikey and came up with a different manufacturer for
that part number.


Charlie, if you want, you can send me your frame and I'll replace the
connector, just pay for shipping both ways and if you happen to have a
piranha striker I could use one of them. If you don't want to deal with it,
I would be interested in buying it from you. In any case, I need to take
some measurements of the sear and hopefully I can have a new sear made for
me as I've more or less messed up the one that I have now. Seeing yours
will give me an idea what the original sear looks like. Let me know.

-Bruce