Just realized I was wrong about swapping wire connectors mid-job

I was out at KMDH airport last Tuesday working on a King KX 165 nav radio swap. Had a bunch of old D-sub pins that were crusty and I kept swapping them out one by one cause I thought it was faster. After three pins in, I got a short that fried the power line on the backshell. Had to stop everything and redo the whole harness. Now I just pull the whole connector, replace all pins at once, and test continuity before plugging back in. Anyone else deal with that kind of shortcut backfiring?

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the_olivia1mo ago

That "faster" shortcut got me too, fried a whole display unit once.

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