Bill,

I agree with you on all of this.  Perhaps my post wasn't clear.  I was
giving reasons why one should _never_ solder a crimped connection.  There
are crimped connections and there are soldered connections.  Anything that
is both is generally a failure waiting to happen.  The last part about
telling the design engineer (that's me) "Because" when he asked "Why" was me
just being a smart ass to this mostly production oriented forum.  The line
about the 200 lb. Muskie was supposed to tip people off that I was kidding,
but I guess it didn't work.  We do have some big Muskie's here in Wisconsin
(at least that's what some of my lying fisherman friends tell me; I've never
caught one), but they don't outweigh us.

You can post this if you think others may have been misled by my message.

Regards,

Seth Goodman
Goodman Associates, LLC
tel 608.833.9933
fax 608.833.9966


> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Kasprzak, Bill (sys)
> USX
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 6:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [TN] Crimped connections
>
>
> Seth,
>
> I know I sound like a broken record but,
>
> crimping is just that, crimping. If you find it necessary to add solder or
> even compelled to add solder, then change your connection from a crimp
> design to a solder design. So, all these consequential results such as
> wicking causing loss of strain relief and the entrapment of flux cannot be
> part of the equation when the connection was designed to be
> crimped, period.
> I still maintain that if the connection that being made is supposed to be
> crimped, then crimp it and be done with it. No other secondary processes
> need to added. Otherwise, skip the crimping and just solder the wire. You
> should not do both.
>
> Bill Kasprzak
> Moog Inc. Manufacturing Engineering, Electronics

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