Solder, Crimp or Screw terminals?

[haygood at myway.com (Brian Haygood)]

T Berk tried to be diplomatic:



>In any case having a lot of excess dielectric grease

and/or rosin in there between the mating surfaces

makes for a good long term connection. (Yes, there is

somewhat of a trouble to be had with the PH of a given

rosin over time, lets just not talk about that, shall

we?)



So is it the PH of the rosin that causes corrosion? If I don't use any, would that be OK?  I'm good with stuffing some dielectric grease around the joint when it is done.  I too have found heatshrink to be a big expensive dissapointment on jobs like this.



BH





 --- On Wed 07/12, T Berk < bayareaberk@yahoo.com > wrote:

From: T Berk [mailto: bayareaberk@yahoo.com]

To: haygood@myway.com, scirocco-l@scirocco.org

Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:24:41 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: Solder, Crimp or Screw terminals?



<br><br>--- Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:<br><br>> <br>> So what is going to give me the best connection for<br>> battery and ground cables?  Solder, Crimp, or Screw<br>> terminals?  I have had good luck so far with solder<br>> terminals, puddling them with solder and dunking hot<br>> wire into them.  I was looking at using the P3 stuff<br>> for some ground wiring on the new car, but I don't<br>> have faith in the screw terminals.  <br>> <br>> What say you?<br>> <br>> Brian<br>> <br><br><br>I like a good solid connection and SOLDER does it for<br>me.<br><br>- Clean both wire/cable and the receptacle it's going<br>into (Spade or ring terminal, etc)<br><br>- Dunk wire into NON-acid based rosin, and pre-tin the<br>end of the wire/cable<br><br>- Now dip it back into the rosin, I mean lay on a good<br>thick glop of the stuff and solder it into the<br>receptacle.<br><br>- After things have cooled and there is a confirmation<br>of a good connection, coat the new end with 
something<br>to keep moisture and O2 out.Liquid-Tape is kind of<br>nice, Plasticoat does a decent job under the hood. I<br>have found most shrink-tube to be disappointing in<br>that it gets brittle over time and with the heat the<br>motor produces. (In the rest of the car this isn't<br>such a problem.)<br><br>In any case having a lot of excess dielectric grease<br>and/or rosin in there between the mating surfaces<br>makes for a good long term connection. (Yes, there is<br>somewhat of a trouble to be had with the PH of a given<br>rosin over time, lets just not talk about that, shall<br>we?)<br><br>This goes for crimping and the screw type connections<br>as well, jam some jelly in there.<br><br><br>TBerk<br><br><br><br><br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com <br>

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