Sassmaster

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copper is the best comductor out of the three, and chrome plating makes anything a worse conductor, because chrome is a very bad conductor.

The reason that gold and platinum plating are popular is that they don't corrode. Silver will tarnish, and silver oxide is a poor conductor, even though silver is a great conductor. Gold doesn't corrode, and keeps it's electrical prpoerties intact.

platinum is almost non-reactive and is a good conductor, not as good as copper, gold, or silver, but it will not tarnish, and is harder than gold, so it won't wear as easily.

Sterling

Isn't there some kind of spray or gel I can put on the terminals so they won't corrode? Every time I have my battery serviced they put a waxy materal on the terminals?

Father Yuli

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Mr. Slow/n\low how many times do i have to tell you this -> I DONT KNOW WTF IM TALKING ABOUT!!!! please dont forget that again. so now that we all know I have no clue there is no need for u to say dumb comments like u do. Im clueless, i know nothing about anything, i cant even read or write...do u get the point?

hey Tim does this sound familiar to you??? this was taken from another post about terminals and this is what u said:

here is the rest of that thread for your review:
http://www.canadiancaraudio.com/cgi/...c;f=3;t=008354

i think everyone pretty much agreed that soldering regular ring terminals gives u a much better connection that those screw on types of crimping??????

the original question in this post was:
so.....going by the other post about terminals it appears that there is general agreement that fancy terminals (screw on and compression ones) provide a worse connection than when u solder a regular ring terminal. Tim u said this yourself!

if i have two terminals made out of the same material but one is a regular ring terminal which can be soldered on and the other one is a screw or compression type.....i would take the cheaper ring terminal and solder it.......is this not what you would do Tim???? and everyone else??

[ April 15, 2004, 09:15 AM: Message edited by: Tinted ]

Sassmaster

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sterling: spray on red grease is what I use. it's used on most industrial terminals to keep dust and corrosion off.

Tinted: he's talking about battery terminals, and I've never seen anyone try to solder the terminal onto a car battery; simply because the heat required to do that would release a lot of toxic, and explosive gasses.

Father Yuli

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ummm i know he's talking about battery terminals. im not talking about soldering it to the battery?? im talking about soldering the power wire into the ring terminal and attaching to the battery the normal way.

yah i totally missed the 'battery' part. I now see that he is asking about the connection between the terminal and the battery and NOT between power wire and the terminal (which i thought was the question)

That would be pretty Tinted like to solder wire to the battery. my bad. thanks for pointing that out.

Impala Builder

I have a project for you. Take any Gold plated terminal and buff it with red jewelers rouge.....guess what


Its' chrome plated, under the gold plate

Sassmaster

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I was going to say, they'd never waste money chroming them. usually it'd be nickle, tin or solder, just to "tin" the copper or brass so that the bond between the base metal and the plate is stronger.

Tim Baillie.

Tinted, you need to relax, it is nice to see that you are paying attention and learning something.........................

Now please tell us why fancy battery terminals are bad..........unless you meant to say ring terminals.....................