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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
... If you know of a supplier/manufacturer would be willing to step forward with a crimper and terminals for next year's KOP please put them in touch with FIRST.
BTW, I have our students insert a star washer between the wire terminal and the battery terminal. This simple addition will bite through any surface corrosion to give a low resistance connection and it prevents the terminals from sliding past each other and loosening. Add the appropriate locking hardware and the connections will never come apart.
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Al, do you think that many teams would have crimpers for the #6 crimps available to them from their sponsor? I would imagine many teams would and thus there wouldn't be quite as many that first would have to get sent out. Also as an alternative to crimping soldering would work and only requires solder and a soldering iron, not an expensive crimper. I have occasionally used the crimper at electrical supply houses, if teams asked the supplier around them they may be able to "lease" the crimper, I had to do this when making some splices with my 2500 watt inverter which I used 8 2/0 crimps and if we would have been allowed to use crimps I would have used it this year also.
-Mike