Wire terminal connectors

[mick.]

It's a common practice mate. We get customers who have just bought new floats off us and had towbars fitted with the 12 pin plugs elsewhere. They have the car on the road for only a few months and then things start going wrong. They bring it back to us assuming it's the float which I have a little module I made up I put on the floats to test everything to show them it's not the float. Then we check the car and there all scotch locked. We also put solder on the end of the plug wires so the screws crush onto the solder rather then the wire which gives a lot better connection.

Cheers Mick

[megatexture]

nice tip there mick. i might do that also, plugs give me the shts as its hard to get a good one at a reasonable price and as my dog loves to chew them off i hate buying expensive ones .

[GQ TANK]

We used to make a mint from repairing intermittent faults caused by scotch locks (money for jam). I have always banned scotch locks from my workshops. (Im a radio tech by trade)

We use crimp connect - done with a good quality mechanical crimper. Also have done soldering & heat sink.

If you use inline bullets ensure that there are no exposed ends that can short.

[Shaun 4x4]

It's a common practice mate. We get customers who have just bought new floats off us and had towbars fitted with the 12 pin plugs elsewhere. They have the car on the road for only a few months and then things start going wrong. They bring it back to us assuming it's the float which I have a little module I made up I put on the floats to test everything to show them it's not the float. Then we check the car and there all scotch locked. We also put solder on the end of the plug wires so the screws crush onto the solder rather then the wire which gives a lot better connection.

Cheers Mick

You have great practices in your work,
The one thing I will tell you tho is NEVER solder a wire that is getting crushed, ie with a screw.
This magnifies the chance of breakage in the connection 10 fold.

I am a sparky and this is specified in the as/nzs3000:2007 and must NOT be done.

[Shaun 4x4]

If you want a better connection in a connection point use crimp type ferrules. Ie boot lace pins

[NP99]

Lots of stuff I was unaware of......many thanks.