I use the proper crimpers then solder...

some terminals are meant to be hammered oin by the way...and they do a pretty good job of staying on just from hammering...but you probobly have a bigger corrosion problem then if it were soldered

When I make big cables with crimp ends I use a Hydraulic crimper that I make Hydro Hoses with at work. You can crimp harder then any hand tool in exsistance.

You take a hammer... lay it down on some concrete and you hammer the hell out of it...

No hammers, no channel locks, no vice grips, no brute force and ignorance... The best connection WHEN DONE CORRECTLY is the crimp. For the smaller gauge wires any decent hand held crimper from an electrical supply house (verify the crimp is good and heat shrink over it). For the 4 to 1/0 gauge use a very good manual or hydraulic crimping device (bootleg, sasmaster and slow/n\low got it) and to dress it I like to heat shrink over it too. If the crimp is easy to botch (as illustrated above) so the solder connection is a very good second best WHEN DONE CORRECTLY. The cyclic stress and strain on a terminal will weaken the solder so that is why it is generally not used in commercial applications. Both are good enough.

But wait... he said a GOLD ring... wait a minute let me look that up in my electrical handbook.

And DONT SADAR anything!

No........solder it....

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The soldering methods I've seen outlined here are pretty half-@ssed... when doing a proper solder joint you have to heat both the wire, and the part it's being wired to, to a higher temperature than the melting point of the solder, and then keep heating as you apply solder to the opposite side of the connection, so the solder is sucked through the wire, filling all the gaps, and bonding to both the wire, and the terminal. Simply heating the terminal, filling it ith solder and then jamming the wire in will NOT create a good electrical, or mechanical connection.

[ April 02, 2004, 09:08 PM: Message edited by: Sassmaster ]

I crimp, then solder.

^ gooooood

Tim the 4th reply by the tinted guy referenced sader, I do not recomend sader