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| yaksplat:
Molex connectors make it all look professional. :applaud: |
| danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on November 17, 2011, 07:58:33 pm ---I was a deisel mechanic for several years. Truckers liked to add fancy chrome lights to their rigs. They figure the easiest way to tap into a harness is with scotch-locks. That truck drives through the elements and the scotch-locks become the vessel for corrosion. I hated tracing an electrical problem to find a clump of electrical tape with a scotch-lock that has turned into ball of green corrosion. Weatherpack connectors are best for the elements, but if you have to do wiring work on something exposed to the elements, at the very least use heat shrink butt splices. That's why I hate them. Yeah, most arcade cabs aren't exposed to the elements, but there's a better way than using those ---smurfing--- scotch-locks. They look like ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- too. --- End quote --- Yeah, I have a similar background to account for my disdain of scotchlocks. I was an auto electrician. For us, the only proper way to permanently join a wire to another wire was to solder. Everything else is an inferior option. I was horrified when I visited the workshop of a friend who was a helicopter turbine mechanic. They had scotchlocks in their toolbox :scared. I think it was mostly for things like adding radios etc, but still...Also, a bunch of scotchlocks together just looks like ass. Not something you can take pride in. But for a cab, crimps would be ok. Not like it's getting a ton of rain on it ;D |
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