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In my opinion it’s better to use hotair because You won’t touch ec5 body so You won’t left any solder left on sides – if You left then You will have trouble fitting conductor element into plastic case and need to use lot of force!!

1. Strip wire
2. Apply little bit of flux then add solder onto wire
3. using hotair heat ec5 pin and fill solder into hole (about half of hole)
4. fit wire while heating, wait couple of seconds then remove heat source
5. cold down and apply heat shrink tube
6. fit pin into plastic case using flat screwdriver
7. BEFORE STRIPPING ANOTHER WIRE MAKE SURE FIRST ONE IS FITTED INSIDE PLASTIC (or insulated) TO PREVENT ACCIDENTAL SHORT!!

Here pictures of that operation:

I’v got myself a TRI PRC 152 replica and i’m trying to put real military issued u-283/u connector, but i have to figure out what kind od PCB connector is used between TRI board and that connector.

The answer is: PicoBlade Molex Mini Micro JST 5pin 1.25mm

and could be bought without any problems on RC stores.

Here are some pictures.