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Old 18-05-2023, 19:12   #31
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I use terminal stripes, heat shrink ring connectors and this stuff:Click image for larger version

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Dammit, why didnt i think of fork terminals when i did my rewire with rings. Would have made things so much easier many times over making the connections in tight spaces.

My workaround many times was a blob of butyl bed-it tape on the screwdriver head to hold the screw on and free up a hand.

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Somewhere in the bowels of my eleven on-board tool boxes I have screwdrivers that will hold the screw onto the screwdriver tip while you get it started in the threads. Now, is it in the orange box or the black one? Or the dirty green one? Or the the red one with the iffy latch? Or…or…?
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Reading through this thread I am becoming even more convinced that a dab of solder, an inch of heat shrink and a squart of hot melt glue is by far the best way to join electrical conductors in the marine environment.
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Reading through this thread I am becoming even more convinced that a dab of solder, an inch of heat shrink and a squart of hot melt glue is by far the best way to join electrical conductors in the marine environment.
You can get all that: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T1HYJ9G

The issue is that the solder can easily melt, so you have to twist the wires before soldering. Also, the terminal block is still superior when using glue lined heat shrink crimped terminals.
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You can get all that: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T1HYJ9G

The issue is that the solder can easily melt, so you have to twist the wires before soldering. Also, the terminal block is still superior when using glue lined heat shrink crimped terminals.
Amen. I did a total re-wire on our boat 17 years ago. I used Boat Cable and replaced the previous wire with a gauge heavier. I used tin- plated ring terminals ratchet-crimped with adhesive heat-shrink. There were approximately two hundred terminal ends when completed.
In retrospect, particularly at the breaker panels and buss bars, it would have been easier, faster, and with far fewer dropped (lost forevermore in the bilge) screws had I used fork-type spade terminals. Except in the damp bilge area for the pump switch, not a single terminal has failed in that time. For that switch, I have now used a hand-held 8 ton hydraulic crimper. It can be a little awkward to use in tight spaces, but its possible to get crimped ends that are almost like swaged.
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You can get all that: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T1HYJ9G

The issue is that the solder can easily melt, so you have to twist the wires before soldering. Also, the terminal block is still superior when using glue lined heat shrink crimped terminals.
being a bit suspicious of low melting point solder I just use common resin cored solder, parallel twist the wires, trim them off, slip a piece of heat shrink on and inject hot melt glue. I generally then heat gun the the join to shrink the heat shrink and force the hot melt into any voids.

I use crimp type fittings but if I want high reliability, water proof connections (particularly in the bilge or exterior) I use the soldered, shrink and hot melt technique.
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