Removing Crimps from Hotend Connector?

My Ormerod1 developed a heater fault. When commanding the Hotend to 200°C it did not take long until the a fault developed: "temperature excursion exceeded 15.0C". Ok, I dug around a bit and I think I found the problem:

yes these wires are supposed to be yellow. it's one side of the hot end heater. During testing i noticed that the wires and connector to the hot end where warmer than expected. Now, any hint on which side I should poke something small in the connector to try and dislodge the crimps from the housing? If possible I really would like to have a closer look at the single crimps ...
thanks for all your feedback
auser

It's difficult to remove the crimps without the proper Molex tool.

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Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

IIRC, those two yellow wires are in parallel. It's possible that the unaffected yellow wire has lost continuity somewhere, leading the whole current through the other one.

(Just going off memory here, do check with the circuit diagrams. )

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dc42
It's difficult to remove the crimps without the proper Molex tool.

Difficult, but not impossible.
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aniron

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dc42
It's difficult to remove the crimps without the proper Molex tool.

Difficult, but not impossible.
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Neat!

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Large delta printer [miscsolutions.wordpress.com], E3D tool changer, Robotdigg SCARA printer, Crane Quad and Ormerod

Disclosure: I design Duet electronics and work on RepRapFirmware, [duet3d.com].

At least now I know why they are hard to remove: two locking tabs!
Got one out with staples and some fiddling, got impatient and sniped of the rest. Also ordered some XT30 connectors, ... for the moment it is printing again with the wires temporarily soldered together. now the leads stay nice and cool, let's see if the print will finish.
Thanks to all hints and tips!
auser

just a quick update: print finished without a hitch!

I have the same errors popping up and noticed last night that the wires leading to the connector are also charred.
I have already replaced the connector so I believe it must be as a result of the connectors not making 100% connection with each other.
Both the wires are charred on my printer at the connector.

I discussed it with Sardi in his post here