ah yes, good point about the flux i forgot about that. and yea i did use the red one.

 

Awesome write up man. Sticky this for sure I can see a lot of people trying this me included.

 

I just looked through our supply. We have a few hundred, ranging in size up to 1/0.

Most of the larger lugs have 1/16" flange thickness. The baby 4 AWG and smaller are closer to 1/32" flange thickness.

The only cosmetic difference I see between yours and commercial grade is that ours have a flared end for ease of wire insertion, to guide those few stragglers in.

Good idea, thanks for sharing.

John

 

Being a bit of a DIY guy myself, this is an awesome write up and not crap up your post or anything but we sell these things for 30 cents each, is there an advantage to the home made ones over these?

 

no worries, its just in my area (milton) i could not find anywhere that had then for a resonable price. they all wanted 7-10 a peice. i went to electric supply stores, car audio, nappa, halton automotive, homedepot, walmart, and crappy tire. nobody had them, or they were too expensive. (seeing as i needed 6+ it was going to cost me like 45$ for some connectors....)

im sure some people have places near them that dont GOUGE the crap outta them, but yea. :P

 

MTT! What's the name of the place that these terminals are available for 30 cents each? I need to get my hands on a few, 6 or 8. For 4AWG power wire...

This is a great DIY regardless.

 

this is an old trick, nice write up. you dont really need to solder tho. copper to copper (or in your case copper to copper clad aluminun wire) is best.

Partsource sells 0 to 4/0 terminals for cheap.

another trick is getting a terminal that's bigger in size than your wire and sticking two ends of wire into one terminal. saves cost and space.

 

The pics are a little fuzzy..... but I'll sticky it anyway.

 

we are an automotive parts wholesaler (we own halton automotive as well as 7 other stores), my price is 33 cents each, not sure what trade price is and we don't sell retail...if you live anywhere near me, I can hook you up with how ever many you need.
we also have compression fitting type ones that I personally like a lot better but they are also much more expensive.

and I agree, great write up.

 

I don't know what state or country that link was written in about Types K, L or M copper but it's got some errors on it for sure. Type M is basically not even used for anything anymore except some drainage above ground but then you would buy DWV type copper anyway. It's too thin for water system useage. Type L is the minimum requirement for any building codes in this country. Type K is the thicker stuff yes, but it has GREEN lettering.