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Originally Posted by ohohyodafarted
I have done this several times. I found that just cleaning the pins out is not good enough. After I remove all the solder by heating with an iron and slamming down on the work bench to get most of the solder out of the pins, I then take a small drill bit ( sorry I can remember what size, but is either a #60 or possibly slightly larger) and drill out the pins to get the inside perfectly clean right down to the inside walls of the brass pins.
With the inside of the pins perfectly clean it is much easier to get the wires to slide inside the pins. Sometimes I will extend the wires like you did, but usually if the original wires are clean you can get them lined up perfectly and they should slide into the pins after a little bit of trial and error.
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Thanks for the tip! I will try drilling it out.