if you get the right crimper, crimping is far superior to soldering. aircraft wires are all crimped connections. no soldering except for inside electical boxes. and usualy its the solder that fails because of environmental reasons making the solder brittle.

 

Cool post Tucson! Interesting soldering station link.
I've been using a radioshack butane iron for 10 years or so.
Nothing beats it when you're on your back, between the seats, reaching up under the dash to solder. ;-)

Have you ever tried the cold-solder battery-powered irons?
Are they any good? I've thought about trying one, but my old beastie
just keeps plugging away.

Ern

 

Properly crimped connections hold up just fine. Any one that slams them is using a piece of crap crimper tool, or piece of crap autozone connectors for critical connections.

You're wiring up the charging system, not installing a pair of 6x9's.

Almost all of the connections in your car or motorcycle are crimped, not soldered. Or ethernet cables in all of the super critical network installations around the world - all crimped.

 

a properly crimped crimp is absolutely plenty.

your still going to be needing practice and can easily spen 30-60 atleast on a proper crimper.





I have never used the cold solder tools, they look really cool, but i doubt they have enough power to heat up a connector

 

cold solder tools? what? and what do u mean 30-6- on a proper crimp, dollars?

 

for a nice crimping tool, at a local electronics store. yes $30-60 USD.

I personally use the yellow strippers/crimpers, which are NOT a proper crimp tool. and if i dont do that great of a job crimping i use solder.

 

Are these the kind you are referrring to you, because these are the kind I use. And if they are, you mean to tell me that these aren't ideal for crimping connections? Just trying to pick your brain is all.

 

Marine Wire Termination Photo Gallery by Compass Marine at pbase.com

just found this cool link. I was talking about the yellow ones in there. not sure what happened to my other post.

 

thats funny because they say those are bad crimpers in the link