I think you would have better luck with the crimp on type of terminals. I
have picked some up at local car audio places for about .20 each. I don't
have a crimper that big so I use a phillips screw driver and a vise or
vise-grips. Use the screw driver shaft to push the split in the crimp part
of the terminal down first. If you want I can send you some pics of how I
do this. It holds very well, I have also in the past (after I crimped it)
tinned it with solder to give it a little more holding power. How many
strands of wire are in the cable? What gauge is the cable?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kyle Kozubal" <grndak4x4@home.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:19 PM
Subject: DML: Soldering Question
> I have soldered many many items in my life, both with my Weller 'pencil'
> style solder gun and with my Craftsman 'gun-trigger' style gun. The pencil
> style is rated at 25 wattts while the gun-trigger style is rated at upto
200
> watts(adjustable from 100-200watts); the pencil soldering gun I only use
on
> small jobs and thin wires and of course the beast I use on thick
> wires/cables. How thick of wire can I effectively solder, one which will
> product a quality solder?? I need to solder a 2 ring 'lugs'/terminals onto
> 4-6gauge stranded wire(truck's main battery cables, pos/neg)and just
curious
> how will it turn out? I will, of course, only be using the larger
Craftsman
> soldering gun. Any info, help, or suggestions are greatly appreciated as I
> would like to get the new military style battery cable 'clamps' on this
next
> weekend. THANKS!!!
> Kyle
> 93 Dakota 4x4 V6
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Jun 20 2003 - 11:57:55 EDT