Good crimping is superior to soldering......soldering is better than bad crimping in almost every way.....

Moral of the story is buy a proper crimp tool and the correct dies for you application...or it will fail :)

I seem to remember a picture floating around where a guy hung several anchors on a piece of wire crimped to another.

http://www.sailnet.com/forums/gear-m...vs-solder.html

http://www.pbase.com/mainecruising/image/93367274.jpg

I spy an aluminum Danforth anchor in there :suspect: Still probably about 80lbs

similar to my thread in the 3rd gen section.

I don't generally go to the 2nd gen section, but saw this thread. Lots of good information. Is there a way we can have a common 'how to' section or put this in the fab section?:dunno: I just don't want to miss good information that is not gen specific....maybe i'll just have to swing by teh 2nd gen section more :willy_nilly:

Definetly a crimp>solder connection. I work for Lockheed Martin soo thankfully i have full access to just about every type of DMC crimper and luggers. Once a month our crimp tools get re-calibrated and tested to ensure that each crimp(varies with awg) can hold at least 50ft.lbs of pulling force. For any wiring that will be in a harsh enviroment crimping a connection is your best bet, with a soldered connection you will have solder wick up into the wire, and over time from vibe,stress,pulling and thermal stress you will get a fatigued solder joint that will crack and break. With a crimped connection you dont have to worry about this too much

I'm actually in the process of redoing all the wiring in my car with amphenol and various other mil style connections and sleeving. i will post pics of the finished product.

Zack.

No Zach, you will post pics now, and lots of them, or I will ban you after a mail a package of anthrax and poisonous spiders to your house :rofl:

Jeff's right, this belongs in a different section. I'll move it shortly

haha, You getting jealous Brian?.... I'll snap some photos tomm. Pretty much ebay is the place to get amphenol and amp style circular mil spec connectors and pins.


Zack.

Nope, already did all the mil-spec wiring that needs to be done on my FC. Itching to get started with it on the FD though and always interested to see others top quality wiring work.... gives me motivation to DO IT BETTER THAN YOU MWWAAHAAHAHAAHA!!!!!!

Haha sounds good man.

Zack

I hate working with some people in Lockheed Martin (contract work). I think I'm going to finally order DMC crimp and turret. Not to mention get the cannon plugs. Sigh... more money, less time.

Haha i feel you, we have a lot of young gunho engineers that don't know there ass from there head. It really aggrevates me to see how they treat some of the operators and other engineers. What kind of contract work do you do for Lockheed?

Rocket Propulsion. Oh the stories we could tell...

haha oh yes!!

Zack