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• Re: Vanagon Syndrome...AFM fix
  Historical mailing list - Steve Cotsford
  Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:18:33 -0400
  I used 2 10 microfarad from Radio Shack and soldered them in parallel. Steve Cotsford
• Re: Digifant ECU: Corrosion? And.... Rosin or Heat Damage? PICS
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 8 Jul 2012 17:00:21 -0400
  ...So when one pops open their ECU, they aren't just looking for >failing solder joints due to time, use and heat (normal wear...
• Re: refrigerator - high altitude operation
  Historical mailing list - Gary Lee
  Wed, 19 Jun 2002 19:41:07 -0600
  ...Get a propane torch and solder up the hole in the old jet. Drill out the soldered up hole to the new smaller size...
• Vanagon Syndrome Fix: 10 Volt Capacitor OK?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:52:10 -0700
  ...The archives mentions using 12 volt or higher rated capacitor, but will a 10 Volt Tantalum capacitor be ok? FWIW to others, soldering two...
• Re: Ultimate Fix #1
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Wed, 24 Oct 2001 12:25:17 -0700
  ...So now I am SOLDERING new eyelets etc (as per Ultimate Fixc #1) on all of them. Question: All the ground wires have this...
• Hey My Clock Works!
  Historical mailing list - Steve Delanty
  Sat, 29 Mar 2003 08:50:28 -0800
  ...With a little care, the circuit board CAN be soldered successfully. I soldered a jumper wire from one end of the broken trace to...
• Re: 1.9L starts but wont run long
  Historical mailing list - Rico Dagastino
  Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:10:14 EST
  ...I traced the problem to a loose solder joint in the ECU. When the joint heated up the expansion would cause the connection to...
• Re: Brain failure?
  Historical mailing list - Kenneth Lewis
  Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:44:23 -0500
  ...I do know they develop fatigue cracks at the solder joints of a couple large components. This however does not cause total system failure...
• Re: Resistance of Coil Wire?
  Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
  Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:44:59 -0400
  ...I also soldered the ends on mine as the ones that come with the wires tend to fall off when you pull them out...
• Re: Soldered Connections
  Historical mailing list - Charles \"Luke\" Lukey
  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 06:04:02 -0800
  So the question becomes "Where do I buy a really good crimper for my occasional automotive needs?" Luke
• Early Vanagon Analog Clock repair:$2 in parts & procedure
  Historical mailing list - Paul Guzyk
  Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:13:14 -0700
  ...It is not too difficult but you have to be comfortable with a soldering iron (and de-soldering procedures). Here's how to do...
• Re: Check your grounds
  Historical mailing list - Lawrence Dongilli
  Sat, 1 Aug 1998 14:04:23 -0700
  ...I prefer a good solder connection. Although, I also find that > cold solder joints are a prime culprit for bad electrical connections too. ....understood...
• Re: another spade terminal question - syncro temp gauge sender
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:19:49 -0500
  ...Wrap and twist bright clean wire, leave a tail you can press onto the button surface while soldering using electronic solder and quick heat...
• Wiring Question
  Historical mailing list - Markus Benne
  Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:50:47 -0400
  ...Can someone tell me how to extend a wire like that (and where to get wire like that)? Also, when soldering a wire, how...
• Re: How To Make New Battery To Starter Cable for 2.1 Vanagon?
  Historical mailing list - tom ring
  Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:13:20 -0500
  ...When soldering battery cables I use a > >propane torch with a slightly smaller tip. Hotter and faster (more energy per > >unit time) means you...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:02:26 -0400
  ...It's in the ECU -- I mentioned it w/regard to bad solder. It's big, and mounted off the board b/c it...
• Re: ECU Lifespan?
  Historical mailing list - John Anderson
  Thu, 16 Mar 2000 19:51:59 -0500
  ...Plus a lot of the Digifant ones seem to come with marginal quality soldering to begin with, and a lot of nearly cold joints...
• Re: No Start Cause: Relay Failure. PICS, Thoughts.
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:17:02 -0800
  ...Since 63/37 solder (which solidifies abruptly) is > expensive, the solder used in the wave tank will have had a mushy > zone between solidus...
• Re: Soldered Connections
  Historical mailing list - Kent Christensen
  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:26:17 -0700
  Perhaps listees can find material of interest on this topic at http://www.amp.com/product/tech/white_papers.html
• Re: Instrument Cluster Lights
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:06:23 -0400
  ...But if you can scrape off the plastic that covers and protects the foils, you can just solder a wire across the break, no...
• Re: Kuject connectors?
  Historical mailing list - Jim. Felder
  Mon, 20 May 2019 11:11:02 -0500
  ...Heat shrink connectors with solder ring in the middle. Tried > 'em > > This should work better... just one of many choices. > > < > > https://www.amazon.com...
• Re: Update Re: Engine died, March 31 update and maybe ecu smoking gun?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:02:33 -0700
  I was thinking more along the lines of this https://www.amazon.com/YKEY-Programmable-Pocket-size-Soldering-Acceleration/dp/B071K5FNGT/ref=sr_1...
• Crimp connectors and the real world
  Historical mailing list - Terry Kay
  Thu, 2 Nov 2000 06:26:06 -0600
  ...Been replacing them on the hoods of Mack Trucks for years, with solder joints. Even if they are coated with Mass dosses of die...
• Re: bodywork idea????
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 23 Mar 1996 08:34:57 +0000
  ...For shallow, broad dents, I've had some success with this idea, but soldered, not welded or brazed. Use a propane torch and watch...
• Re: Need to repair/replace deteriorated instrument panel connector
  Historical mailing list - Edward Maglott
  Sun, 13 Apr 2008 20:10:40 -0400
  ...Replace the foil wiring, get a used >instrument cluster in better shape than mine, or try to solder and wire up >the existing connector...
• Re: It's 22:26!
  Historical mailing list - Warren Lail
  Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:56:24 -0600
  ...of solder pads, one labelled 12h and the other 24h. �You want to end > up with the 12h pads shorted together with solder and...
• Re: Digitool building and group entertainment.
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sun, 26 Nov 2000 21:54:06 EST
  ...circuits, try a small lamp (aka, lightbulb) in series with your soldering iron. A 30 watt lamp, if there is such a thing, should...
• Splicing the O2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Alan Bosch
  Mon, 19 Feb 2001 08:08:53 -0600
  ...There's a very big difference between soldering electronics and soldering (sweating) copper water pipes. The water pipes I can do, but with the...
• Re: Wiring Question
  Historical mailing list - Dan Bertschi
  Mon, 27 Sep 1999 14:15:59 -0400
  ...Whatever you choose, definitely solder your connections. Good luck! -----Original Message----- From: Markus Benne <mbenne@CROSSKEYS.COM> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY...
• Re: Cigar Lighter Wiring Question.
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:25:47 -0500
  ...If you have the option between solderless connectors and solder, go > the latter route with heat shrink tube. I've never regretted soldering any...
• Re: Vanagon Syndrome Fix: 10 Volt Capacitor OK?
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:55:34 -0700
  ...I soldered two 10uf caps to the AFM internal connections. Tricky so end result not 100% I'll either remove the connector terminals, piggy...
• Re: Hose clamps
  Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
  Mon, 30 May 2011 11:13:57 -0700
  ...Cut > off the threaded part and solder a wire around the end for a lip (the > steel will have to be very very clean...
• Re: friday - home made rosin flux
  Historical mailing list - neil n
  Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:55:23 -0700
  ...own rosin flux for soldering > > > http://dangerousprototypes.com/2012/06/14/workshop-video-how-to-make-a-simple-soldering-flux/ > > alistair > -- Neil n 65...
• Re: Power Window problem
  Historical mailing list - KENWILFY
  Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:30:12 EDT
  ...I was looking at the back of my switch today and was surprised to find that the connections were soldered! In aircraft electrical systems...
• Installing Aussie chip
  Historical mailing list - Brent Christensen
  Sat, 13 Apr 2002 16:36:18 -0700
  ...Now I also see that the chip must be *unsoldered* and the new one soldered in place. I am assuming this is the case...
• Horn strangeness ('82 diesel)
  Historical mailing list - McComas_Glenn
  Wed, 9 Feb 2000 17:06:56 -0500
  ...If you have a friend (maybe a model RY nut) who has soft-soldering skills and maybe a Dremel tool, enlist him/her. Get...
• Re: ECU firmware location
  Historical mailing list - Leslie Schwartz
  Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:53:57 -0500
  ...Also once the IC leg is removed use the solder sucker to take out the remaining solder in the hole. We are talking about...
• Instrument lights (late model vanagons)
  Historical mailing list - J Greenberg G Jannini
  25 May 96 19:16:39 EDT
  ...Morin wrote: << I finaly went to Radio Shack and got the number for the instrument lights...You have to disassemble the VW lamp...Solder...
• Re: (Fixed) 1990 Syncro Alternator
  Historical mailing list - Michael Blackburn
  Thu, 6 Jun 2002 16:27:20 -0600
  ...I have a crazy setup with a dual battery isolator and the thing has a wire that solders onto the regulator inside the alternator...
• Re: refrigerator - high altitude operation
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Thu, 20 Jun 2002 01:02:18 -0400
  ...Drill out the >soldered up hole to the new smaller size. >Use a dremel or similar high speed tool as the drill. These are...
• Re: Soldered Connections
  Historical mailing list - Marshall Ruskin
  Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:57:06 -0600
  ...However, IMHO if you can't solder them, they are not tin-coated copper crimps, but aluminum. As they obviously are, as you have...
• Re: Voltage at alternator blue D+ lead?
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Sat, 14 May 2011 21:08:55 -0700
  ...I do have a big old soldering iron, and you do need that. alistair On 14-May-11, at 8:31 PM, Jim Arnott...
• Re: problem splicing O2 sensor wires
  Historical mailing list - EMZ
  Mon, 8 Jun 1998 07:17:58 -0400
  ...I > couldn't get the solder to 'wet out' on to the wires (using commercial > grades of solder & paste flux). What I did notice...
• Re: Blue LED instrument lighting
  Historical mailing list - Roger Reynolds
  Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:10:24 EST
  ...shrunk small lengths of heat shrink over the solder > joints. Cut one of the lengths of wire back to aprox 1/4" and removed...
• Digitool for 80-83
  Historical mailing list - David Cooper
  Tue, 7 Mar 2000 23:09:45 EST
  Yes, Joe Darrell does make one for the air-cooled engines but you have to do some of you own soldering to install it...
• Re: Cause of weak spark?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:06:59 -0400
  ...The ignition driver works at a high enough voltage (peaks around 400 volts for a few microseconds) that it will arc over solder fractures...
• Re: some vanagon applicable products from lee valley
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Wed, 7 Sep 2011 09:31:51 -0700
  You know, I have never had good long term luck with gas powered soldering irons. The orifice or some where in the gas flow...
• Re: How many volts can ECU handle?
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:47:16 -0500
  ...On Max Wellhouse's Bosch 025 906 022 (which has about 125 cracked solder joints I'm about to start soldering, not counting the...
• Re: Solder cracked steel coolant pipe?
  Historical mailing list - Peter DiFalco
  Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:52:19 -0700
  ...Ok- So I have a friend who came over yesterday and soldered a one inch > crack in one of the steel coolant pipes which...
• heater control light - LED hack
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:48:11 -0800
  All you soldering experts will mock my abilities, but here goes... http://shufti.wordpress.com/2011/11/25/vanagon-heater-control-light-led-hack...
• Re: No Start Cause: Relay Failure. PICS, Thoughts.
  Historical mailing list - Dick Wong
  Tue, 5 Feb 2013 23:44:01 -0800
  Neil, From the looks of the solder joint, the "extra" flux (brown stuff) that is visible around the solder pad indicates that someone was...
• Re: High quality two pole 60A wiring connectors
  Historical mailing list - Loren Busch
  Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:49:52 -0700
  ...The big ones require either a monster crimper or soldering. I soldered mine. And everything is buried in the connector, noting exposed.
• Re: Power window switches
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:44:33 EDT
  ...These are VW made switches but don't have the wiring soldered on the rear of them. They are $15 each and they are...
• Re: Headlight improvements ?
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Thu, 2 Nov 2000 08:22:38 -0800
  , when I redo the > wiring harness on my '61 I'll be using the improved type crimps and no > solder. what exactly are the...
• Re: Unbelievable, was Re: Spare ECU
  Historical mailing list - Roger Whittaker
  Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:20:19 -0800
  ...google.com/dbeierl/SolderFatigue# > > All eight of my images are on the first four pages of google image > results for solder fatigue. And the...
• Re: Voltage Stabilizer and headlights connected now....??
  Historical mailing list - Ben Cichowski
  Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:30:21 -0600
  ...Yup, that replacement isn't SUPPOSED to require soldering - you are correct. What I found when I took the cluster off was that the...
• OXY sensor Help!!
  Historical mailing list - Erik Feddersen
  Sat, 11 Dec 1999 15:07:53 -0500
  ...I wanted to solder the wires but the original wires won't take solder although the oxy sensor side will. Question, can I rewire...
• Re: Crimp vs splice
  Historical mailing list - Kitzmann
  Mon, 10 Dec 2001 16:20:21 -0500
  >1) Based on actual test results, crimping is better than soldering. Read something interesting about all this a few months ago. It turned out...
• Re: Soldered Connections
  Historical mailing list - Walt Spak
  Sun, 31 Jan 1999 11:10:50 PST
  Luke, My crimping tool is German made, but the brand name is worn off of the handle. Search out specialty tool suppliers. Walt Spak...
• Re: insulating connectors (was: dying battery/alternator)
  Historical mailing list - Mark Rokus
  Sun, 7 Jun 1998 13:42:16 -0400
  ...you suggested. The wire was crimp spliced with a bare crimp. Soldered the connection. Brushed with "Scotch-Kote" (the official liquid tape). Covered with...