Cannon plug pin extraction, am I the only one doing it the slow way?

Was pulling pins on a 50-pin cannon plug in the hangar in Tulsa last month and realized I'd been using the wrong extraction tool angle for like 7 years, bending the pins and cursing every time. A senior guy walked by, flipped my tool 90 degrees, and the pin slid out like butter, made me rethink all my old harness repairs. Anyone else have a basic task where a small tweak from someone who knew better completely changed how you work?

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phoenix_singh29d ago

Tulsa's humid hangar air probably had those pins corroded anyway, so your angle was fine and the old guy just got lucky with a cleaner connector. Ten years of harness work taught me that forcing pins out at any angle is a waste of time when a proper puller and a little heat solves it every time.