I used thin foil once... I think mine will be alright (?)
I always suggest wire jigs to everyone. It's the safest and easiest method. You can't easily make them yourself without a 3D printer, but they're cheap online. Paperclips even if bent to fit exactly are made of thick and relatively hard metal that can wear out the pins over time. Tin foil is less likely to wear out the pins but then you have to deal with potentially having a small piece break off and getting stuck in there, and if not caught, could short out pins you don't want shorted (like pin 4 which is power)
Wire jigs are still fine. I feel like the topic name should be changed to clarify this.
anyone suggesting tin foil should automatically get leveled-down here on temp (LOL) just use the wire jig, everyone has a useless wire around the house
I'm not huge on the foil either. I would however prefer to use foil over the paper clip approach. Paper clip can obviously bend the pins (scratching is less likely a problem). The risk with foil is obviously shorting out a power pin, or getting some foil stuck. If careful it probably won't go wrong.
We have to remember many of the people doing this stuff aren't adept at fine work or thoughtful about what they are doing. Often people are just blindly following tutorials or videos. I certainly break plenty of stuff inadvertently.
My choice for a non-open the joycon solution vote goes to the jig with bent copper wire such that the wire creates the slight spring force to press on the connector pins, vs anything that is forced into the pins (i.e. jig with paperclip) causing the pins to potentially deform past their spring return capacity.
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Joycon rails replacement are cheap as hell, both, the one in the joycon and the one in the switch, if it breaks, just change it.
conectors are bundeled together on the rails on replacement parts. changing the rail is changing the conector.
man I'm so sick of these reddit PSA's.
Plstic, go away, your comment isn't useful.
Red1Reaper, thanks for posting the fallback option. Can you update your original post with some links so your post is more helpful? Also keep in mind that many people who COULD and WOULD mess up their switch rails are probably NOT the folks who would have the aptitude to repair them.
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pin 9+10 has a "bad topic" now the jig has a "bad topic" cant wait to see reed switch bad topic, autorcm bad topic. and everything bad topic
everyone with a common sense should know the involving risk's when doing stuff it isnt designed for..
Go away, find somewhere else to post useless complaints. At least people who post the "bad" topics care enough to put some thought into educating people.
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Using reed switch here but as people already stated the obvious.
Who gives a fuck about the conector breaking? WHat it would take? 1000, 5000, 20.000 insertions?!
Also rails are dirty cheap to replace (both joycon and switch ones)
Don't cuss, it makes you look more foolish than you might really be.
10 insertions perhaps? Connectors like this are typically rated in the low 10s of thousands under normal use, so in an agressive wear scenario it would likely be 1/10th or 1/100th. But, no, I really don't know. I can only draw upon experience. What can you draw upon?
It also depends on luck, force, how badly the jig was made, how poorly the paperclip was cut (sharp corners at the right location will be more likely to damage faster).
Most "normal" people care about breaking their connectors. More importantly having it break at the wrong time (on a trip, on a plane, in a room with you etc.)