[DeTomaso] Battery Cable Ends, OK to solder?

Sun Oct 20 23:15:41 EDT 2019

I remember when I was doing cables for 5332.  Yup, Napa can absolutely trash a connector while trying to crimp it.  Gads, what a mess.  I like solder - mine are soldered very soundly.  I seem to remember we had a helicopter pro on this forum who ranted about soldered wiring on helicopters and how bad it was.  Probably right.  Who cares?  I don't fly a copter.  But on cars - geesh - I am confident that I will not see my soldered battery cables solder crack any time soon.   Flip side, the battery would probably fall apart first - given the plates are what, lead???

Geesh.

stephen

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From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com> On Behalf Of Doug
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 4:42 PM
To: 'Thomas Törnblom' <thomas at hax.se>; 'Ken Green' <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
Cc: detomaso at detomasolist.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Cable Ends, OK to solder?

These type of connectors are typically solid copper or tin plated copper , not aluminum.
To use them, you need the proper (expensive) crimper.  Your local NAPA auto parts will likely have one and make the crimp for you if you can take the cable or car/cable in to them.

In addition to Thomas' point, soldered connections are subject to the solder cracking in high vibration environments like trains, planes and automobiles.
Note that ALL of the automakers use crimped connections throughout their cars.

Doug Braun
Blue 73L #5505

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Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2019 12:11 AM
To: Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Battery Cable Ends, OK to solder?

I think they are designed to be crimped. 

A problem with soldering is that the solder will wick into the cable and make it stiff.

/Thomas

> 20 okt. 2019 kl. 00:11 skrev Ken Green via DeTomaso <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>:
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>    OK, thanks
> 
>   On Saturday, October 19, 2019, 2:48:30 PM PDT, Jack DeRyke via DeTomaso
>   <detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>     They're made to be soldered. The only thing to be careful of is the
>     huge amount of heat necessary, that might burn the cable insulation.
>     You'll need a propane torch and lots of flux. Add shrink tubing slid
>     well out of the way before soldering.
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Ken Green via DeTomaso <[1]detomaso at server.detomasolist.com>
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>     Sent: Sat, Oct 19, 2019 2:22 pm
>     Subject: [DeTomaso] Battery Cable Ends, OK to solder?
>       I have some fairly heavy and nice looking battery cable ends.  I
>     think
>       they can be crimped, but I'd like to just solder them.  Any reason
>   to
>       not solder onto the cables?
>       Thanks, Inline image
>       Ken
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