Date:         Tue, 2 Jun 1998 18:01:01 -0700
Reply-To:     Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
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From:         Austin <austins@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      insulating connectors (was: dying battery/alternator)
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At 11:30 AM 6/2/98 -0300, you wrote:

> If you cut back to new copper and find it has blackened, scrape it clean
>and solder a new terminal on. If the solder won't take, cut the wire back a
>few inches and splice in a fresh length.  Crimped connectors don't work as
>well, and won't work at all well on half crudded copper. Heat shrink tubing
>adds some weather proofing, but also stiffens up the connection and prevents
>flexing at the lug.
>
>HTH, Tim
>
Ref the last comment (~heat shrink tubing) does anyone have any experience,
thoughts, ideas regarding using 'liquid electrical tape'?  I've felt it
seals better than the shrink tubing, but don't know how long it lasts.  (as
an aside, swaged connectors are really marginal at best - they should be
soldered wherever possible after swaging).

Austin