Solder, Crimp or Screw terminals?

[rapieper at yahoo.com (Ron Pieper)]

Crimp it, don't need special tools if you have a pipe notch in your vise jaws:
http://scirocco.dhs.org/cheapassron/crimp.jpg

It's the Cheapass Way.

Let's see...that was on Victor, so it must be about 4+ years now...no issues last I knew.  Fill
the lug with dielectric grease before crimping.

Cheap and effective - two great tastes that go great together.

Thus self-congratulated The Cheapass.



--- Brian Haygood <haygood@myway.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
> 
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> 
>  --- 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
>
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