At 01:16 AM 8/17/2013, Stephen Engel wrote:
>Bravo David! That'll get you a nomination for this years' Knight in
>Shining Armor Award for sure (if such a thing exists).

Bill more than me.  A lot more.  But it took us both.

The scaffold, incidentally...Bill had some very stiff shrink
connectors with a solder bead in the middle.  Some exotic phone
company thing I suspect.  I heat-stripped the wires right back flush
to the connector body.  The two outer wires were in very shaky shape
a quarter inch away from the body.   These shrink connectors fitted
down inside the connector body and I shrank the parts that protruded;
the solder melted and reinforced the wires at the breaks, and we now
had the equivalent of some very stiff insulated wires.  Regular
nylon-sleeved butt-crimp connectors fitted over the shrunken ends of
these, joining them to ten inches or so of new wire leading to the
harness which I cut back far enough to be reasonably flexible.  Once
all was assembled and tested good,  we rigidly cable-tied the
connector body and the butt-crimps to a tongue depressor with the end
cut flat, using the fancy ties with steel tongues that bite into the
tie and don't ratchet.  This effectively made a rigid assembly where
the flex only begins at the new flexible wire, which we dressed out
along the top of the A/C compressor.

Yours,
David