justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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Heat shrink tubing is cheap enough at Harbor Freight. Soldering wires & heat shrink tubing is the way to go. Some places Shrink just wont fit & tape wont wrap around either. Thats where "Liquid Electrical Tape" comes in. Not cheap but REally good to have around.
Soldering is easy, but like everything else, its just kinda odd the first few times. Get a wire stripper, I just have the one that has different sized notches in the handle & crimps connectors at the front end. The little squeeze grip, auto gauge select, things go bad & get weird, so I stick with the simple style. Simple stuff really. Cleanliness matters, neatness helps. Anyone wanting soldering tips, gimme a holler, start a thread on it. Thers lots here who have years O experience at it. The Air Force taught me. Something they didnt teach us was how to set up to solder a wire & make it smooth & go straight. Strip & clean & twist the wire ends, cross them & wrap the ends in opposite directions, toward the other wire to be connected to. As opposed to just twisting the ends & having 2 wires, side by side, with the ends wrapped tightly, these will be in a straight line & can have heat shrink applied & it will be a very neat installation. Its good to have 2 pair of needlenose to tighten up the wraps. Apply some flux, apply heat & dab a spot O solder in it, let it cool, slip the shrink tubing up & warm it up & Duuude! YOu got yerself a good fix. I have a solder gun from weller, about 30 years old & then the little 30ish watt soldering iron & stand with a sponge( to clean & "Shock" the tip. By cooling it, its supposed to have a heat surge & come back in a minute or so, hotter than before the wipe across the damp sponge.
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