>"If you're also used to cheap electrical tape, while you're at Home
Depot drop five bucks on a roll of Scotch 33+.  You'll never look back."

Think I will do that - seems like I have 4 rolls of terrible electrical tape. I don't even remember buying them.  I going to pick up the crimper too.

I 2nd scott on heat shrink tubing, bought lots of it at an automotive flea market.  The stuff hardly shrinks.  Yep - got all the colors, but the black stuff from the hardware store (or was it RadioShack?) is way, way better.

Getting older - time to start enjoying the thing I enjoy.  If you can figure that out.

John