It is the square, hard pin that is the secret behind the good and reliable connection of wire wrapped connections. You will not even get a close result if you wrap a wire around a round pin. (Been th
I think the best is the aluminum crimp sleeves. Mechanically and electrically sound, and lots of surface area. If you're going Al to Cu, I would think for our purposes waterproofing the whole think w
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I go Al to Cu to get from my 80m loop to my balun. I want some flexibility in the wire that goes to the balun, so I use 14ga stranded THHN copper for the final foot or so (a loop from the center insu
My experience using #14 aluminum fence wire with wire-wrapped connections [splices] does not suggest that there is a problem. The objective is to get a 'gas tight' connection as Hans states. I suspec
You can remove gross oxide, but not the actual coating of Al oxide. Al oxidizes almost instantly and certainly before you could remove the sand paper and add the connection. It's this coating of oxid
OK, thanks for that info. That is good to know. I do stick each wire all the way into the terminal strip, so they both get squeezed by both of the screws. I hope that tightening the screws as far as