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[RobertISaar]

i've been watching tracking for parts like a hawk, raising my blood pressure, wondering why tomorrow will have been a full 3 weeks that my money has been in their hands yet they haven't bothered to ship, only notified the shipping company to expect the package.

[steveo]

what parts are you waiting for? perhaps i can help

[RobertISaar]

the male 12-pin connectors.

AKA: the only part that is difficult to find a reliable supplier of.

[steveo]

ahh no doubt! that is hard to find

the chinese connector factories can make them for you with a few weeks lead time; for less than 50 cents each.

wherever you're buying them from, i bet that's where they got them originally.

it's setting that up and communicating that's difficult. minimum order would probably be around 100-200.

although the quality might be an 8/10, for the price of the damn things you could afford to offer a lifetime warranty on the connector and have a few spares around

[RobertISaar]

$.50 X 100 = $50..... that's not that much more than what i'm paying for 5 of them. :/

[jim_in_dorris]

Robert, If you can get an accurate drawing of the part, 3-D printing might be the answer. Current prices are about $0.75 per CC of plastic. Just a thought. I am trying to get a DIY 3-D medal powder printer figured out, I think a 4 barrel TBI that fit a square bore carb intake and used stock GM parts would be a great idea for the hotrod community.

[RobertISaar]

i could draw it down to 1mm resolution, it's a simple enough thing to replicate, i'm not sure how well 3D printed items with wiring embedded in it would turn out?

[steveo]

$.50 X 100 = $50..... that's not that much more than what i'm paying for 5 of them. :/

seriously man set up a china buy

there are these adaptors they make for going 12 to 16 obd and vice versa so they DO have the connector template, you just have to have them tool up and make you a hundred bare connectors

they have to be cheap, since a complete wired adaptor is less than a dollar.. (or less than 50 cents in larger quantities)....

then YOU could supply the diy crowd the bare connectors, selling them for $10 a peice or more and making 1000%+ profit....

let me know if i can help, i've done some chinese parts buys before.

[RobertISaar]

i'm clueless as to the process of something like this. the 12 to 16 adapters are what i cut up for use on the cables now, ending up with a larger distance from the box that holds the UART->USB adapter/10K switch/etc would certainly be useful.