Rich, yo and I are on the same page! I bought crimper at Radio Shack, parts
from WayTek, wire from AutoZone, etc. One would expect that crimpers are
fool proff, but not so, and they go out of calibration. When I was doing
missile junk we had to send every crimper out to a Precision Measurement Lab
to assure that they applied the correct amount of force. So if you had a bad
crimper you also got bad connections. Maybe the high dollar teams send their
crimpers out for cal/cert but I don't, I just crimp, solder and lay on the
shrink tub for strain relief. I generally look at the load being supported
by whichever wire and try and go to that size. When the wire was larger than
my weather pak pins, I used multiple pins to carry the current. If things
go buggy on the salt, I'll just clean and put on more dielectric grease...
mayf, the red necked ignorant desert rat in PAH rump.
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