05-13-2019, 12:08 PM | #1 |
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Battery Terminals
Went to drop a new battery in the white RX3 and the cheap, thin, negative terminal (the part you bolt through) cracked off the end of the wires. Now I have one super fat wire and two small wires that I need to crimp a new end on to.
Any ideas? I'd like to put something a little more substantial on it than the original thin terminal connector.
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05-13-2019, 12:34 PM | #2 |
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Ring terminals are commonly available all over. You can get nice gold ones at a stereo shop, or generic zinc at any auto parts store, Walmart, they're just everywhere. If you don't have a crimping tool, for this size you can get away with using Vise Grips and clamping down incrementally until the wire is well crimped. Easy.
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05-13-2019, 01:53 PM | #3 | |
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I was just wondering if someone may have come up with a "cooler" setup or possibly "I used "these" and they rock!"
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05-14-2019, 12:35 PM | #5 | |
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I ripped my thumbnail off making my own terminals a few months ago. I rarely do that, and think it's a waste of time, but I was trying to finish a project on a Sunday night and didn't want to wait. It has almost grown back now. The underside of nails is pretty interesting, never would have known it's ridged. http://www.ancorproducts.com/en/prod...ls/heat-shrink |
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05-14-2019, 03:08 PM | #6 |
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Oh man... I just cringed reading that....
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05-14-2019, 03:19 PM | #7 |
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It's oddly less painful than it would seem. Not a fun activity, but not horrible. The actual worse part is just trying to function as a normal human without a thumbnail. You have no idea how often you use your thumb tip, and it's non-functional without a nail. Oh, and pressure on it for the first month was horrible, and still now is bad. It's not possible to press hard buttons even.
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