Re: What is the "Proper" way to attach lead wire to in wall wire

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

They do if you bend them a little...but screw terminal stubbies are the way
to go.




"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Artistry said:
|
| >All my soldering equipment is in storage, hence the need to build a new
| >house.  This FINALLY gives me a justification to purchase one of those
| >cordless Cold Heat soldering tools.
| >
| >I personally could not think of anything that would be as reliable, but I
| >thought that the industry would have adopted a less time consuming
method.
| >
| >I didn't recognize the phrases, "Dry B-Beans," or "Gel filled B-Beans".
I
| >googled them with unrelated results.
|
| First of all, don't buy the Cold Heat tool.  It's a toy.  If you insist on
| a portable soldering iron, get one that runs on butane.  However, if all
| you want to do is solder contacts to wire, just buy a disposable butane
| lighter, preferably with an adjustable flame.  Before you start talking
| about cold solder joints, realize that a butane flame is considerably
| hotter than the tip of a soldering iron.  Plus, a butane lighter fits in
| your pocket, and cools down almost instantly.  Stagger the splices to
| minimize the overall diameter of the splice, i.e., don't put the two
| splices side by side.
|
| I'm an old-timer, so I prefer solder and tape.  If you want to look at
| solderless connectors that are widely used in the alarm industry, search
on
| the term "B wire connector."  That's the term Western Electric used when
| they invented them.  They don't stuff up a small hole nearly as nicely as
a
| soldered, staggered splice.
|
| - badenov
|