"Trevor Wilson" wrote in
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"Van Chocstraw" wrote in message
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On 11/30/2009 07:54 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:

After having had a bad experience trying to crip a lug some years
ago, I recently faced the need to do this again. So I bought a
moderately expensive ratchet based crimping tool. And, rather to my
surprise, it actually works.


Crimping is an emergency fix to me. It's a **** poor connection that
can corrode and pull apart. I always use solder after crimping.

**Then you're doing it wrong.



Yup, adding solder will make the connection brittle, and more prone to
failure in a vibration environment.

Crimping is actually far more reliable.