The Finest Meter Test Leads I Have Ever Used
OLDAKER TEST LEADS. These things make Fluke and other test leads look like they were manufactured in Ethiopia. Extra long length. Hardened STAINLESS STEEL tips that are as sharp as a hypodermic needle...
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Adhesive lined heat shrink tubing "versus" liquid tape?
Totally different products for totally different applications. Boiled down it amounts to "this" in real life...
When a pinprick hole is made in a wire insulation to test for voltage, the pinprick can be effectively sealed environmentally and leakage wise by dabbing on a bit of the acrylic sealant. Packard-type OEM sockets and plugs that pass 10 amperes or more of current are especially susceptible to failure. This is why most newer vehicle pass wire harnesses straight through a firewall without using a junction or terminals at the firewall barrier.
Someone wants me to find out why their slide out does not slide. Within 15 seconds or so I find one of the terminals affixed to the motor is not affixed to the copper strands inside the terminal. I have a toad that "had" an instrument panel power problem. I found the negative wire terminal that attached to the instrument panel edge card connection was leaning on its shovel. Power at the edge card, but not continuing on to negative. I wanted to know WHERE the problem was. EXACTLY. The edge card connector to wire connection was bad. Without piercing insulation I would still be scratching my ***.
I still have a Plumb chisel to scrape through frame gunk, and 90 grit emery to sand through corrosion.
BY THE WAY. I have informed (I forgot how many) electrician mechanics to make up a MAGNET with a hook-to-point to make your own ground attachment point on a flat ferrous surface. Scrape. Clank. Connect. Ground.
BTW a particular brand and type of heat shrink tubing is so far superior to "#2" that it's a joke. Sold by ICO RALLY the "HIM" 3 to 1 shrink tubing is as far as I am concerned the Rolls Royce of shrink tubing. The meltable adhesive liner is freakin' strong. And the tubing itself is HARDER to cut (damage) than even cross link poly-olefin wire. ICO RALLY HIM is remarkable stuff. The company is in Palo Alto, California.
Totally different products for totally different applications. Boiled down it amounts to "this" in real life...
When a pinprick hole is made in a wire insulation to test for voltage, the pinprick can be effectively sealed environmentally and leakage wise by dabbing on a bit of the acrylic sealant. Packard-type OEM sockets and plugs that pass 10 amperes or more of current are especially susceptible to failure. This is why most newer vehicle pass wire harnesses straight through a firewall without using a junction or terminals at the firewall barrier.
Someone wants me to find out why their slide out does not slide. Within 15 seconds or so I find one of the terminals affixed to the motor is not affixed to the copper strands inside the terminal. I have a toad that "had" an instrument panel power problem. I found the negative wire terminal that attached to the instrument panel edge card connection was leaning on its shovel. Power at the edge card, but not continuing on to negative. I wanted to know WHERE the problem was. EXACTLY. The edge card connector to wire connection was bad. Without piercing insulation I would still be scratching my ***.
I still have a Plumb chisel to scrape through frame gunk, and 90 grit emery to sand through corrosion.
BY THE WAY. I have informed (I forgot how many) electrician mechanics to make up a MAGNET with a hook-to-point to make your own ground attachment point on a flat ferrous surface. Scrape. Clank. Connect. Ground.
BTW a particular brand and type of heat shrink tubing is so far superior to "#2" that it's a joke. Sold by ICO RALLY the "HIM" 3 to 1 shrink tubing is as far as I am concerned the Rolls Royce of shrink tubing. The meltable adhesive liner is freakin' strong. And the tubing itself is HARDER to cut (damage) than even cross link poly-olefin wire. ICO RALLY HIM is remarkable stuff. The company is in Palo Alto, California.
