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First Time Confusion - help!
ChadTower:
That's the catch - if you don't want to solder you have to learn to crimp. One isn't really any faster or easier than the other and both require low cost specialized tools. To be an effective cab builder, IMO, you really need to do both before you're finished. Neither is difficult and both take a little practice to master.
BORIStheBLADE:
I would go with crimping because you can always disconnect and replace easier with a crimp.
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2008, 01:29:13 pm ---
That's the catch - if you don't want to solder you have to learn to crimp. One isn't really any faster or easier than the other and both require low cost specialized tools. To be an effective cab builder, IMO, you really need to do both before you're finished. Neither is difficult and both take a little practice to master.
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Personally I agree with you 100% but for some its like... "cookie dough from a plastic tube" vs "recipe from the back of the toll-house bag" ;)
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: BORIStheBLADE on February 11, 2008, 01:33:09 pm ---I would go with crimping because you can always disconnect and replace easier with a crimp.
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Not once you're good at it. It only takes a couple of seconds to desolder from a lug. It takes just as much time to carefully work a tight QD off of the lug. The only time that would really make a difference is when you're far from an electrical outlet.
As someone who mostly restores cabs I have to deal with other peoples' crimping "skills" all the time. Sure looks to me like most field ops couldn't work a proper crimp if they had 100 tries. I end up cutting the QDs off and soldering to the lugs more often than not.
RetroACTIVE:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on February 11, 2008, 01:39:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: BORIStheBLADE on February 11, 2008, 01:33:09 pm ---I would go with crimping because you can always disconnect and replace easier with a crimp.
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Not once you're good at it. It only takes a couple of seconds to desolder from a lug. It takes just as much time to carefully work a tight QD off of the lug. The only time that would really make a difference is when you're far from an electrical outlet.
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I prefer not to use QDs on the old leaf switches... the tabs are very flimsy and sometimes getting the QDs on and off is risky... for those I tend to solder.