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The formed males can be very fragile. The slightest accidently bend and the pin may break off. Hansen sells double ended (solid pin) male "headers" that have long pins at both ends (as opposed to long one end, short the other). We made our encoder connectors all female, and used a piece of that header to turn one female end into a male. Not sure if that would work for connectors targeted for victor with its hooded pwm connector.