Repairable connector

An electrical connector of the type comprising an insulating housing having a mating face and a wire-entry face, a contact receiving cavity extending through said housing and between said faces, an electrical contact terminal in said cavity, said terminal having a contact portion which is proximate to said mating face and a wire connecting portion which is proximate to said wire-entry face, a wire extending into said cavity at said wire-entry face, said wire having its end portion connected to said terminal in said wire connecting portion, said connector being characterized in that:

• said wire-connecting portion of said terminal is a hollow cylinder having a circular end edge which is adjacent to said wire entry face,
• said end portion of said wire has a cylindrical ferrule thereon, said ferrule having an outside diameter which is substantially equal to the inside diameter of said wire-connecting portion, said ferrule being received in said wire-connecting portion,
• said wire-connecting portion has a pair of spaced-apart axially extending slots extending from said end edge, the segment of said wire connecting portion which is between said slots being flexible radially outwardly with respect to said wire connecting portion,
• a ferrule retaining stop on the internal surface of said segment, said ferrule retaining stop being against a complementary stop on said ferrule and preventing movement of said ferrule from said wire connecting portion of said terminal, said ferrule being intentionally removable from said wire connecting portion upon flexing said segment radially outwardly thereby to disengage said ferrule retaning stop from said complementary stop.