1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Bought an 80w soldering iron. Hope this time goes better with the 10-12 ga wire

 

That's classy AF cuh

 

Might be easier to torch them.

 

perhaps

 

Or maybe some heat shrink self solder butt connectors

 

10-12 you'll be fine.

Initially I thought you said 0 hence the butane being mentioned; my Weller is what...75 or so and it's done 12 easily for speaker cable, etc.

 

nah, I ran shielded 7 wire to the back of the trailer. I'm soldering in tees for lights/brakes so I don't have to cut the 7 wire harness

 

Gotcha. Just twist and tape then. It's just a trailer.

 

wait, is that not the way wiring is supposed to be done...? crap

 

I want to do it once and never have to touch it again

 

Butane torch is what I used to heat up some heavy guage stuff for a harness I made. Worked great.
What size wire you dealing with for the trailer?

 

primary wire is 10 and 12 and I am wrapping and soldering 18 gauge to it

 

I was being facetious, even I know the ol' twist and tape isn't the proper way lol. Although I'd be lying if I said I never do it

 

Don't answer my previous question on gauge of wire. I got it.
And it sounds like you got it just fine too with that new iron.

 

Easiest method for 'testing', twist it and tape it.... I may or may not have 'tested' a stereo deck in my old FJ40 for like 10 years, it was when I was 18 is my excuse
My 'testing' was still holding up when I sold it years back

 

I definitely did a few twist and tape stereo installs as a teenager. All the time spent troubleshooting flakiness could have been spent doing it better

 

I might have my AP bumper turn signals done that way

to be fair it started as a test but was late at night, and 'I'll fix it tomorrow" turned into...well, yeah

But hey, they still work haha