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Re: Gas Engine/ Copper or Rubber Lines?
Posted By: Vic Roy In Response To: Re: Gas Engine/ Copper or Rubber Lines? (Carl)
Date: Monday, 16 May 2005, at 8:37 p.m.
Carl - likewise, putting electrical wires inside a copper tube is a dumb idea. Copper conducts electricity, and a short will start a fire. KISS, bundle the wires, tie them up with wire ties, keep them out of the bilge water, and label them.
And a lesson on 12v wiring - 99% of the faults in your 12v wiring are corroded connections. If it's a pre-fab wiring harness with plugs, separate them and shoot with Corosion X and put them back together.
If you are doing new connections, strip the insulation, scrape the copper with your pocket knife till it's shiny, then rosin solder with a hot torch, make sure the solder runs shiny thru all the wire, then coat the joint with Penetrox conductive grease, then heat shrink it, and it will out last you. Remember to run the heat shink tubing up the wire a good ways to keep the soldering from shrinking it before you need to run it down the wire to do the final shrink. Voice of experience.
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