That's a good tip! I never thought of that [img]tongue.gif[/img]

^^

Works like a hot damn, I personally fill it about 3/4 and just trim off the extra that flows out.

hehe, I'm going to have to do an install just to try it out [img]tongue.gif[/img]

lol - that's the way we had to do it in the bad ol' days when we had to get ring terminals from electrical houses cuz there were very few car audio wire vendors [img]graemlins/freak.gif[/img]

Crank em up in a vise..... [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

i usually do it how tim said...put the ring in the vise, fill it half way with solder, and stick in the wire.

I just use a real big hammer...I find with the soldering method I can never get the wire to stay in the terminal after I am done it just pulls out with moderate force

solder is best, and if the ring terminal pulls out with minimum force youve soldered poorly and should redo it

Big hammers and vices are only going to increase the chance of breaking the terminal and or flatening it out which still is not going to improve your connection, your ultimate goal is to "bond" the terminal to the wire...............solder is the only way to do that..............

i stick the wire into the ring terminal and just pour hot sader from the top down and let it sink into the wire untill it sader starts to pour over the top........then u know u have dumped the maximum amount of sader into the connection and there is no more room left.