justin_o_guy2
Serious Thumper
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East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.
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If you've never soldered, I wouldn't recommend you start with that.
Pick up a hunk of wiring harness from a junk yard so you have different colors, sort out the sizes, a heavier jumper is okay, skinnier, not recommended.
Peel back tape, expose enough of a run to allow easy access, you will need wire cutters, strippers, butt connections and the pliers, well, they strip and cut, but the stripper part is kinda big and clunky. And they have flat spots for crimping butt connections on.
Get a few to waste. Don't go crazy crushing the connections. You can make the wire break in a few days.
If you pay attention to how you go about it you can stagger your splices so you don't wind up with a lump of butt connections to tape up. Get some Made in America electrical tape. You want to wrap,position your hands, unwrap a bit, pull tight, are , walk it around, go back, wrapping again, til you like it.
It's not something most folks can wrap their head around, to cut more wire out instead of slamming connectors in, but I think you'll be ahead to cut wires out to different lengths so the repairs aren't all in one place.
You can get strippers for about twenty bucks like electricians use, put the wire in, lined up in the stripper to the right gauge wire, squeeze the handles and it grabs the wire and strips it. You still need the ugly,cheap, not so good stripper available at harbor freight for crimping and cutting wires.
I'd want an Xacto for getting tape off. I'm not there Can't lay hands on it If you just want to clean up the damage and put splices in, if you have room to do it, that would be quicker, just lumpy, Buy some60\40 solder, resin, not acid core. Get a good soldering iron, tin the tip, tin some wires and solder them up. You Tube surely has tutorials on soldering. Connecting wires and running them in a line is easy. Strip them Lay the ends side by side Like fingers pointing at each other Then cross them in the middle Wrap one wire one way The other wire the other way Solder that up
If you're completely prepared you slipped heat shrink tubing on the wire. Now slide it down the soldered joint and heat it. Tidy repair there
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