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Originally Posted by 98ssnova
Can you send me a link to what you are talking about with the heat shrink attached to it i have been looking and cannot find them thanks. sorry to thread jack
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Not from west marine but the same 3M terminals and a decent price. JR Oh, and they take ALOT of heat to start shrinking. At first I thought I got ripped, regular terminals. But kept the heat from my really hot heat gun on the terminal and sure enough it started to shrink. And you can tell when they are done because the wire shield under the heat shrink becomes more visible as the glue melts and gets liquid. Oh, and on a side note. I wanted to test the strength of the glue and its holding strength to the wire. So I did one on a scrap piece of wire. Let it cool completely (actually over night, had other things to do) and gripped the terminal in the vice, just the metal section and plastic, not the wire. Gripped the wire end in some vice grips. And started to tug. Holy cow!!! I couldnt pull the wire out of the crimped terminal with my body leaning away from the vice. I actually couldnt pull the wire out. Testament to some hot melt glue for helping to hold it all together. Dont do that with crimp only terminals. The wire will slip the terminal and you will end up on the floor. And it prolly helps a lil on the sealing part too. But not as well as a Weather Pack. If I could afford to do Weather Pack terminals everywhere then I would. But for GP type terminals the 3M are the best of those type of crimp terminals IMO.. JR
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