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Re: Great source for MGB wiring with original bullet connectors

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Subject: Re: Great source for MGB wiring with original bullet connectors
From: Eric <eric@erickson.on.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:50:33 +1030
Barrie Robinson wrote:
> 
> I cut a small piece of  flux cored solder and dropped it in from the wire 
> entry side.  Held the wire with bullet down (on the end of the wire) and 
> touched with soldering iron which melted solder and voila!!  

The only problem with this is that you must heat the bullet connector up
before you melt the solder onto it.  The solder melts at a much lower
temperature and the temperature difference will pretty much guarantee a
"dry joint" which, if it doesn't just pull apart at the first nit of
stress, will be a poor conductor and weak mechanically (probably failing
somewhere later down the track).

Then again - it may work just fine, unless it is a "critical"
connection, whereupon it becomes subject to "Sods Law" :-)

-- 
Eric
'68MGB MkII
Adelaide, South Australia




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