Terminating mini din sockets

Nope that is how you are supposed to do it- with a very fine iron. They are called solder buckets. I also fit tiny heat shrink sleeves on alternate pins. a touch with the iron does the shrink fine.

Might a half butchered but otherwise ready assembled cable with a male socket end fit these terminals from the inside?

OTOH I've done these with a hot small tipped iron, leaded solder with flux, as short a time as possible. Could suggest alcohol to reduce the shakes, and numb the pain from nursing finger burns.

Or ask at your local chinese takeaway or mobile phone shop. They will know someone that does it in their sleep.

Tin the pins , tin the wire ends, hold together , apply iron and reflow into a joint, add flux if you really have to, fresh leadtatstic solder won`t require a touch up, sub min Ds are a real pain.

Why not simply buy DIN sockets with proper solder tags? The sort where you can secure the wire before soldering?

Some just love taking the difficult way. ;-)

These don't seem to exist in mini din. I did look at using a sacrificial mini din cable, but very few 8 wire cables seem to exist and the wire size is generally a mystery.