[Delanoman]

I purchased these military style twist plugs. I am wondering what I should use to fasten the actual wires to this hardware? OR.... On the ends there is a semi circle thing. Are these supposed to be crimped to the wire leads?

[jalessi]

Delanoman,

They are solder termination type MIL-C-5015 connectors.

Jeff...

[Delanoman]

Cool thank you.

[ehalpern1]

You touch the sides of the cups with a 20 to 30 watt soldering iron and slightly under fill them with solder.

You strip about 1/8" of insulation off the wires. Twist the exposed wire by hand to tighten it up, then "tin" the wire end with solder.

Then simply heat the solder cup again and insert the wire while the solder is liquid, and hold everything still for a moment while the solder cools.

That's it!

[Roofletch]

Then try it at arms length, in the dark and rain, hanging upside down by your feet into the bowls of a millitary jet! They are loads of fun then! :-) You should be fine on the bench.

[rdstillw]

If you have any further questions you can look at my companies web site...tech service will answer any connector question you have and even provide you with free samples. Good Luck

http://www.mill-max.com/

[Al_The_Man]

I always slip a stubby piece of heatshrink over the wire, then slip it down over the soldered pin, it makes for a neat job when finished.
Al.

[Deep Groove]

Then try it at arms length, in the dark and rain, hanging upside down by your feet into the bowls of a millitary jet! They are loads of fun then! :-) You should be fine on the bench.

You left out the fun part of doing all the above on the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in the middle of the North Atlantic in mid-winter storms.


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[TOTALLYRC]

(chair)(chair)Try doing it on the bench on a Saturday morning when you are actually supposed to be doing yard work and your wife is calling.(chair)(chair)

No husbands were actually hurt in the making of this joke.

Mike