To make it even easier, clamp it into a heavy duty vice so it can't get away from you.. And use a 4 Pound hand sledge. Your results will be much better!!
I think it's called "ScoutCrafter Red Positive Cable". ;) It was extra from a previous project, I never throw anything away. Over the years I've ended up with a fairly useful collection of oddities.
Any tool that includes hitting it with a hammer is a good'un to have. lol... This one is interesting and I can see it being very useful with crimping connectors to the larger diameter wire.
I was just researching that and apart from resistance which may not be an issue with increased surface area, it seems the bigger issue is that flux from solder can have long term effects on the wire and make strands more prone to breakage. Generally flux is washed off and/or the wire is not stressed, but maybe a consideration with lugs that wicked up flux into fine strand cables.
Just want to say... when you're using heavy cable like this, you're talking about enough current, that should something go wrong and your cable heats up.... once that solder melts you no longer have a mechanical connection to the terminal.
Very true, and keep in mind once you get the lugs hot enough to melt solder, not only did you not size your wire, breakers and or fuses incorrectly, you have other issues you need to worry about at that point. :D
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Just got mine in today. Adding some fuses to my solar kit. They should help a lot with my modifying of some battery cables
To make it even easier, clamp it into a heavy duty vice so it can't get away from you.. And use a 4 Pound hand sledge. Your results will be much better!!
I bought the Lincoln version; they all appear to be made the same. Thanks for sharing!
Same here, from Northern tool!
Oh man, now I want to crimp something!
I use one of those ever day !
We call it the Atom Smasher !
A good vice and my 5 Lbs sledge ensure its crimped for Life !
Cool Tool..beats my screwdriver & hammer on vise method
Very interesting! Love that Copper cable! Must have cost $$$! 😃👍
I think it's called "ScoutCrafter Red Positive Cable". ;) It was extra from a previous project, I never throw anything away. Over the years I've ended up with a fairly useful collection of oddities.
Any tool that includes hitting it with a hammer is a good'un to have. lol... This one is interesting and I can see it being very useful with crimping connectors to the larger diameter wire.
I thought it was a lot larger until you grabbed it .
On the soldering the cables I heard it’s a bad method to crimp your lugs because you get a resistance and you don’t want that.
I read some papers researching this on Google Scholar, and crimping turns out to have much lower resistance and failure rates than soldering.
If it’s a good crimp I think it is better and lower resistance than soldering.
I was just researching that and apart from resistance which may not be an issue with increased surface area, it seems the bigger issue is that flux from solder can have long term effects on the wire and make strands more prone to breakage. Generally flux is washed off and/or the wire is not stressed, but maybe a consideration with lugs that wicked up flux into fine strand cables.
thanks man i ordered mine cant wait to get it!
You may want to try using a 3 lb or heavier Dead Blow Hammer.only one strike, and no bounce. Try it, you’ll like it,
Just want to say... when you're using heavy cable like this, you're talking about enough current, that should something go wrong and your cable heats up.... once that solder melts you no longer have a mechanical connection to the terminal.
Very true, and keep in mind once you get the lugs hot enough to melt solder, not only did you not size your wire, breakers and or fuses incorrectly, you have other issues you need to worry about at that point. :D
So what ever became of your all electric Citicar?
I still have it! We drive it around town on nice sunny days! It is slowly getting restored. ;)
This is a pretty generic design and might even be made overseas, but I love Temco branded stuff and they back their products as a good company would