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Originally Posted by Tx Firefighter
-Like you, I use bare electrical connectors which I crimp and then solder and finally cover with heat shrink. You pictured yourself throwing away handfuls of those colored crimp connectors that were included in something you bought. I do not throw them away. Simply grab them with one pair of pliers and use a second pair of needle nose pliers and pull the colored plastic thing off. This leaves you with a bare connector appropriate to how we use them. Money saved. Less waste. Crimp, solder, heat shrink and carry on with life.
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so sorry to hear about you being laid up, hope you are on your way to recovery, my dad was a firefighter, thanks for the detailed feedback, I am going to reply to you point by point, as it is a good conversation, I too have done what you described above, the problem with doing this is that the cheap plastic covered connectors usually have a barrel joint, which you put the bare wire into and then crimp and if you are thorough like us then solder, the ones that I buy that are naked have a double clamp system, part crimps the bare wire the second clamp crimps the shielded section for extra strength to prevent wire fatigue
the pic is a bit out of focus, sorry I don't know how to make my iPhone take sharper pics at close up