Buy crimp pins loose and tin plated
Buy crimp pins loose rather than on strips or reels, which are hard to cut cleanly, and badly cut pins will not seat in the housing. Choose tin-plated pins, not gold.
Systems
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- Rectifier board J2 (to cabinet) pins
- Rectifier board J3 (to backbox boards) pins
- Connector housings and pins to keep on hand
- Solenoid driver board J3 pin functions
- Displays misbehave and lamps flicker in display test: bad crimp on a 5 V pin
- Replace browned rectifier header pins and housing pins together
Source: Repairing Bally Electronic Pinball Games from 1977 to 1985, Part One, Clay Harrell (pinrepair.com)