On Mar 14, 10:55 pm, "*" wrote:
Jim Wilkins wrote in article
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On Mar 12, 3:56 pm, "Ivan Vegvary" wrote:

Tape that you can wrap around an electrical connection, then heat shrink,
AFTER you soldered the joint.

I don't know what idiot would need this product. I suppose it would be
useful if you forgot to slip on the heat shrink tubing prior to soldering
wires 1 and 3 of a four wire trailer lighting coupler. Again, only an
idiot
would need this.

Quoting the great chess master Edward Lasker, "All the mistakes are out
there waiting to be made".

Ivan Vegvary

Only idiots need to waterproof 3 and 4-way joints.

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I'll remember that the next time I'm wiring up a trailer plug on the back
of a salt spreader that tows a liquid calcium trailer.

I always thought that white and blue stuff was corrosion caused by salty
water and liquid calcium getting at the copper wiring connection, but you
have certainly straightened me out.

Hell! I won't even tape them up. The air will be good for them!

agree - but...

You do offset splicing so you cannot get a between conductor short,
(and then you dont have to insulate every conductor, makes for a low
profile joint if you ever have to pull it back through an entry hole)
them you use either
1.Butyl Rubber with a layer of insulation tape over it, or
2.Use the RIGHT heatshrink made for the job, it has an integral inner
coating of "Gloop" (its similar to hot melt glue sorta thing) that
will waterproof it.

Andrew VK3BFA.

PS - still got me trade certificates as a cable jointer hanging on the
wall - and even so, still forget sometimes to put on the boot BEFORE I
solder the connector....thats why Method 1 above is still taught in
trade school....