DIY Bi-post Connector

[alt.kafka]

A recent diy, for someone who might need something similar. It's about as ugly as you get, but I only need one. If I make another, it'll look better.

I soldered a sync cable to a couple of metal tubes that fit over the pins, and made a plastic molded connector using thermoplastic. Thermoplastic melts at 140F, so you can just soften it up in hot water or in the microwave. It solidifies over a few minutes, so you have time to fit the pin spacing to your shutter.

The pins are about 2mm in diameter, so any metal tube that slips over them will work. That's ~15AWG. I used these just because I had a box handy. You can get brass tubing that's around that size. I squished them down a bit to get some friction.

[BrianShaw]

Clever!

[Duolab123]

I made something similar over 30 years back, wood block. Your's looks better

[smigol]

I need to make one of these, too. Good to know about the tubes.

[Drew Bedo]

Back in the 1990s, I adaptd the two pin female plug and cord rom an electric razor to cross-connect a bipole synch to a PC connector.

Looked homemade, but it worked.

[dave_whatever]

Coincidentally I made one of these just this last week. The connector is a IEC-320-c1 female, in my case harvested from an ebay cable designed as a charging cable for a Karcher window vac. Cut and soldered to a 2.5mm headphone jack cable so I can use it with my flash trigger.