Allistair wrote: > > On Tue, 16 May 1995, John Anderson wrote: > > > if you're feeling super brave you might make it an electrical service > > weekend and pull every crimp connector and solder it onto the wire as > > well, gauranteed nearly as good as a new wiring harness if you're in the > > mood for some selfabuse might do the intrument panel one day, the engine > > compartment the next, lights on another, break it up a little. > > Is there a trick to this? I tried a few weekends ago and I couldn't get > the resin core solder to flow into the crimped connections. Yes they were > dirty, but I tried to clean them the best I could with contact cleaner. I > have heard of people using acid flux, but I worry about residual flux > corroding the wire. The trick is that you have to get the whole connection really hot. This won't work if the connectors have the plastic coverings, of course. You hold the soldering iron on the connector at the point where the wire joins it for maybe 20 seconds, then add the solder once the whole thing is good and hot. You can't solder onto cold metal. -David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems, San Diego Calif. '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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