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Repairing / installing wire ends

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tomw:

--- Quote from: ghurd on March 12, 2012, 10:44:25 am ---
For the inexperienced, silicone and 'liquid tape' are flamable when wet.   ;)
G-

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G-;

Care to elaborate on how you know this?  ;D

Tom

Cornelius:
Wolvenar; no matter how you connect your cables, it seems that moisture in the air are your problem... If you crimp or solder, i'd say; take a heat shrink tube, and position it over your connection and spray it full of acid-free vaseline (or whatever your poison), and crimp it. ;)

ghurd:

--- Quote from: tomw on March 12, 2012, 11:13:40 am ---
--- Quote from: ghurd on March 12, 2012, 10:44:25 am ---
For the inexperienced, silicone and 'liquid tape' are flamable when wet.   ;)
G-

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G-;

Care to elaborate on how you know this?  ;D

Tom

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Nope, not really, except to say I do have a LOT of experience with it.  :-\
G-

DBCollen:
I use my big adjustable hex crimper, then heat the ends and submerge in a tub of vaseline and let the vaseline wick into the strands, then I shrink wrap them, never had a failure or even external corrosion on the connectors. My battery connections still look clean after 5 years.

rossw:
Here is how I did mine 8 years ago - still no signs of any degradation.

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