Connector contact retention

A connector comprising:

• an insulative retainer that has longitudinally-spaced front and rear ends and a plurality of elongated slots that each extends between said ends;
• an insulative body that has front and rear portions, said body rear portion forming a rearwardly-opening cavity which receives said retainer, and said body front portion having a plurality of longitudinally-extending passages that are each aligned with one of said retainer slots;
• a plurality of contacts that each has a rear portion that lies in one of said slots and a front portion that projects forward of the retainer and into one of said passages of said body front portion;
• a plurality of insulated wires that each has a conductor and an insulator around the conductor, the conductor being terminated to one of said contact rear portions, and each insulated wire extending rearwardly within one of said slots and rearward of said retainer.

A method for assembling a connector comprising:

• attaching front ends of conductors of wires to rear ends of each of a plurality of longitudinally-elongated contacts, while allowing the wires to trail longitudinally rearwardly from said contacts;
• moving each contact and a portion of the wire that trails rearward of the contact, perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a slot corresponding in an insulative retainer, through a longitudinally-elongated opening in the slot and into the slot;
• moving the retainer forwardly between upper and lower arms of a rear portion of an insulative body while moving front ends of the contacts into passages in a front portion of the body;
• inserting the body with the retainer between its arms, forwardly into a shell and causing the shell to closely hold said arms together around said retainer.