[Elecraft] Crinp or Solder

[George Marr]

I worked for a Australian connector company in New Zealand as a Product Manager
I gave seminars to the utility companies (NZ Power Boards) on how to crimp.
The crimping process is not to get a tool and crimp the hell out of it.
If you over crimp in time as the cable expands and contracts with heat and cold it will fracture.
If you compress the terminal with a low amount of pressure it will burn off in time,
The proper tool with the correct die regardless of the wire size is critical for 
the quality control. Soldering is fine as long as you heat shrink the connection to provide 
strain relief. I always use a larger wire size than the current allows to make sure that the wire
will not temperature flex with the load. This is why with jap cars you must run more wire from the battery
if you add anything say a E2 or E3 mobile rig. The wire in the car is "Exactly" the size for the current, add load and it will burn out.

George Marr
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