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Subject:Re: 73 Safare update - curtains/cabinets/carpet/CB/cool!
From:Gerald Skerbitz
Date:Tue, 16 May 1995 20:41:46 -0500 (CDT)

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>From ui775@freenet.victoria.bc.ca  Tue May 16 17:13:41 1995
>Date: Tue, 16 May 1995 14:50:36 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Alistair Bell <ui775@freenet.victoria.bc.ca>
>Subject: Re: 73 Safare update - curtains/cabinets/carpet/CB/cool!

On Tue, 16 May 1995, John Anderson wrote:

> if you're feeling super brave you might make it an electrical service
> weekend and pull every crimp connector and solder it onto the wire as
> well, gauranteed nearly as good as a new wiring harness if you're in the
> mood for some selfabuse might do the intrument panel one day, the engine
> compartment the next, lights on another, break it up a little.
> 

Is there a trick to this? I tried a few weekends ago and I couldn't get
the resin core solder to flow into the crimped connections. Yes they were
dirty, but I tried to clean them the best I could with contact cleaner. I
have heard of people using acid flux, but I worry about residual flux
corroding the wire.

Alistair