I also saw some cool connectors at Napa the other day--you slip the wires
into the connector, and then hit it with a heat gun--the heat gun liquefies
solder, so you get a soldered connection with no soldering skill, and heat
shrink tubing seals the outside at the same time.  They also had crimp and
heat shrink tubing versions as well.
bmc  :)
"Faith will move mountains, but you'd better bring a shovel...."

> From: Dana Morphew <kadm@PUGETSOUND.NET>
> Organization: Dana's Mobile Carpet Steam
> Reply-To: Dana Morphew <kadm@PUGETSOUND.NET>
> Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:31:01 -0800
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Crimp vs splice
>
> Crimped connections are expedient.  My two cents:  Slip shrink wrap over the
> wire, crimp, solder, slip wrap over joint and shrink.
>
> -Dana-
>
> Blake Thornton wrote:
>>
>> So, I finally took my van into the mechanic today.  I'm not overly
>> confident he will find my electric woes (van just dies, I've posted the
>> problem before).
>>
>> In any case, I told him that I cut apart my wiring harness and he crimped
>> the connections.  I told him that I would probably fix it with solder
>> later.  He told me that crimp connections are better and do fine as long
>> as you use that shrink tube stuff on it to keep out the corrision.  The
>> basis for his arguement was that the solder can easily heat up and then
>> the connection goes to hell.  He said he thought solder was better, but he
>> learned this in some class he took a few years ago.
>>
>> Well, I'm not expert and am not too sure which theory I now believe, but
>> thought I would post this view on the list.
>>
>> Blake
>> 84 westy
>> SLC, UT
>