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eds1275:
On my spinal tap machine, I crimped the connectors. It sucked. Took a long time, and my crimp-fu was weak and had to redo them (don't have the right tool.) On this little cocktail machine I am making, I soldered it up in about 20 minutes. I don't imagine that with home use it's going to have many problems, and am considering redoing the wiring on the spinal tap machine to make it neater. I am pretty fast at soldering, and technically good at it (neat looking, uniform etc - I do a lot of it at the theatre I work at and at home with my own audio gear.)

DaOld Man:
I soldered most of my switches and have only changed out one (Out of 5 builds to date). Trick is to leave an inch or two extra slack on the wires, then when (and if) a switch fails, cut the wires close to the terminal and solder them back on the new switch.
IMHO, soldering is neater, easier, less time consuming, and a much better connection (if you know how to solder.)
eds1275:
That's what I thought, but wanted it backed up by experience.
mgb:
You should be fine. It's not as likely that switches will fail real often on a home use machine.
Basically, if you left a decent amount of slack for future replacement and you are a quick and confident solderer, then replacement should be no big deal.
   I'm not sure what you use for an iron but its worth it to also keep a butane iron for quick repairs.
I would say I use my butane iron more than my plug-ins. It makes for quick work
paigeoliver:
I have over 20 games in my house at any given time and I pretty much never have to replace microswitches unless they are already broken when I wheel the game in. I think I have only ever had one go bad on me, and that was one from the 80s.
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