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FitchVa 
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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 11:41 AM / IP Logged  
5150azn, yeah, the front does look funny. But that's how I heated/melted the solder. I'd hold the terminal over the torch, then quickly take it off of the flame and add the solder. I kept on getting the solder stuck to the terminal when it cooled off too much. The back side of the connection looks like there was better fusing between the solder and the terminal. I guess I just didn't heat the top part of the terminal enough.
But thanks for pointing that out! I hadn't realized that.
Steve
soundmasta 
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Posted: August 17, 2005 at 1:14 PM / IP Logged  

thepencil wrote:
You are trying to kill a fly with a sledge hammer.
What you should use is a terminal crimper for any ring terminal application. Solder it if you want extra reinforcement, personally it's a waste of time and effort as the marginal benefit that you gain from soldering does not justify the time you spend in do it. Get yourself a terminal crimper. The ring terminal work is done in less than a second. Save the solder work on loose wire. What I mean is that when you are trying to connect wires together without terminal and connector of any sort is when soldering is the most applicable. Nothing wrong with what you have done, but you can make better use of your time. Say maybe things like getting world peace.       

thats what i said.

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