I've never given this much thought as I tend to cut the original clamps (pic in post #1) off and toss them. They appear to be cast with the battery cables in place vs. crimped, compressed or soldered. Anyway, they seem to hold up for a long time.
I already said I'm moving on, others can too!
Old post I know, but I doubt most on here even know what stress risers in metal are. Makes me wonder, @Jerry Bransford, are you an aviation/aerospace guy also??Don't solder them, they need to be crimped with a suitable heavy-duty crimping too. Soldering them can create stress risers which can damage the cable. Look around, you won't find any soldered connections in a Jeep except in a few places like on the PCM and radio circuit boards, and a hidden splice of some ground wires.
Nope. Unless being a private pilot makes me an aviation guy.Old post I know, but I doubt most on here even know what stress risers in metal are. Makes me wonder, @Jerry Bransford, are you an aviation/aerospace guy also??
Another fact about soldering, the joints are subject to cracking from vibrations. Not one connection was soldered on the space shuttle, I’ve heard. Not that that blunder of an engineering marvel was all too successful, but it was a marvel nonetheless.Fact- if you get the solder hot enough to flow and it should flow, it flows into the strands and makes a stress riser at the end of the solder that compromises the ability of the cable to flex as it should in a mobile environment.
Fact- solder has flux that it carries into the wire strands that can easily cause corrosion.
Fact- if you get solder hot enough to flow and you should, that heat level compromises the cable insulation.
You can ignore the facts, but you can't change them.
That’s something! Your welcome to come fly with me anytime if ever in my neck of the woods.Nope. Unless being a private pilot makes me an aviation guy.
Maybe in the cooler months I'd fly in Arizona lol. My wife and young son and I spent the night in Yuma and it turned HOT the next day, 105 or so by the time I was ready to get out of there. I used every bit of the runway and was gaining altitude in a Cherokee 180 so slowly I ended up having to fly under some real tall power lines not far from the end of the runway to get out of there lol.That’s something! Your welcome to come fly with me anytime if ever in my neck of the woods.