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eightbit:
All this could be resolved if you used a decent crimper and the right size disconnects for the wire and terminal. Following are generalizations and YMMV.

There are 2 common sizes on the connection end. The wider ones are .25 and are used on most microswitch buttons.  This is a very common automotive size and can be found just about anywhere. The other ones are .187 and are slightly narrower. These are used on a lot of joysticks. There are also 2 sizes commonly used for the crimp end for different size wire. The 2 sizes are red and blue, the blue are for 14-16 guage wire and the red for 16-22 guage wire.

Useing the proper QD and a decent crimper there is no reason why your wire should ever pull out or the QD fall of from or not fit your switch. If your using a smaller guage wire, like cat5 or phone wire or something, try stripping extra off the end and folding it over so that there is more to crimp onto. If your daisy chaining your grounds and want to crimp 2 wires into the same QD you may have to use the next size QD up to fit both wires depending on the size of your wire.

Peale sells at least one size over in the buy/sell forum and http://www.groovygamegear.com sells all 4 of these sizes for a good price.

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