Making Cables.
This is your basic battery/winch cable fabrication materials and tools.
Something Between 2 AWG (American Wire Gauge) and 2/0 (00 or 'Double Ought') Cable to start with,
Some Solid Copper, Lead Cadmium Plated Battery Terminals with Stainless Steel bolts and correct 'Terminal' nuts,
Some solid copper 'Lug' terminals,
Some 'Silver Bearing' Electrical Solder,
Some Heat Shrink Tubing with internal 'Glue' to seal up the connection,
Cable Cutter that will do double duty as a stripper,
And a Terminal Crimper.
With this hardware, you can make about any battery cable you could imagine!
Start off with cutting to length, then stripping for terminal ends,
Give that sucker a good crimp for a MECHANICAL connection between cable and connector,
Then give it some SILVER BEARING SOLDER to make a proper ELECTRICAL CONNECTION,
This shows SOLDER FLOWED into the Joint to make an Electrical Connection,
And the exposed wire was 'Tinned' so it doesn't corrode as easily over time...
Time for some HEAT SHRINK TUBING to reduce the amount of exposed conductor, and seal up the joint between cable and terminal.
Here is the HEAT SHRINK doing it's thing!
Notice the 'Glue' coming out of it?
That glue seals up the connection and keeps that cable from rotting out for a LONG TIME...
If you don't have 'Red' cable, A couple of inches of heat shrink can be used to label 'Positive' cables even when the wire insulation is 'Black'...
SAME DEAL WITH THE 'SMALL' END,
Strip, Insert, Crimp, SOLDER!, Heat Shrink...
PRESTO! CUSTOM LENGTH, CUSTOM TERMINAL CABLES THAT ARE BETTER THAN ANYTHING YOU CAN BUY!
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