Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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IIRC they were soldered to allow easy connection for testing - I've
also seen brass sleeves fitted. But both should be cut off before
fitting the plug - the wires were usually too long anyway.


Umm - why should brass sleeves be removed? My thought was that they
were crimped on, rather than soldered, so would be ok for fitting into
(brass) screw down terminals. If they are not advised (and if so, I'd
like to _understand_ the reason why) then I have some plugs to rewire.

They're simply adding another possible poor connection - and serve no
useful purpose. And as I said the chance of the 'tails' being the correct
length for your particular plug is rare.

I recall seeing advice that suggests it is actually better to use a
crimped bootlace ferrule on stranded wire prior to using in a screw
terminal... I think this particularly applies to terminating fines
stranded cables, or termination into terminals like U saddle clamps that
otherwise are poor at gripping smaller wires.



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Cheers,

John.

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