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Michael A. Terrell Michael A. Terrell is offline
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Default Slightly OT - Good connector for high load car accessories?


Gunner Asch wrote:

On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 16:59:34 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
? wrote:

?
?Larry Jaques wrote:
??
?? My buddy Glenn showed me that you could remove the soldering tip from
?? a Weller 150W gun and induction-heat the terminal to solder the wire
?? in. It worked extremely well for the 4ga armored wire he gave me to
?? use with the towing-receiver-mounted winch. http://tinyurl.com/nejufw9
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? If you just used the two posts with no tip, you were doing resistance
?soldering. Inductance heating requires a loop to couple the power into
?the load. Like Diathermy machines.

Absolutely correct. Resistance soldering is how I make up radio
PL-259 male plugs



I use a 175 watt Weller soldering iron for PL-259 plugs. I pre-tin
the braid, then use a small tubing cutter to trim the excess. I then
drill the chrome plating out of the four holes in the shell, then
solder them together. As always, the threaded ring goes on first since
you can't unsolder my method without burning the insulation.