I have thought before at how relatively simple a cable end mold would be and how easy lead is to melt and pour. Just thinking out loud here.
So ya did The Hitchin' Post in Buellton for dinner last night?
Was nice in Lompoc yesterday, around noon....
After driving from my house in Vista, drive to Phoenix, pick up his office, leave at midnight, drive to Lompoc, then have to drive home in one sitting, dinner was Wendys! That trailer is 40 feet long and weight 18K. over 13.5 feet tall with the satellite on top. Folds up.
Yeah. He owes ya a Hitchin Post visit
9 hours Phx to the Poc. 3 1/2 back to O'side.
Not in traffic. 12 hours to Lompoc, the freakin wind thru the San Gorgonio pass was so strong, cross head wind, had to slow down to 50. All the way to Banning.Yeah. He owes ya a Hitchin Post visit
Not to rain on the parade, but definitely some details to work through...I'm sure a few have tried and till you get it all together, you won't be giving them away. LOL I have replaced cables and cells on forklift batteries with a torch. Lead sticks to clean hot lead and not much else. Not sure what they do to get it to grab the copper. Maybe flux is enough. Or maybe tin the cable ends. I could see issues with them pulling apart if you don't get the bond right. Also, on the other ends, I believe there is a bit of plastic that might be a challenge to duplicate.
If the truck still has most of it's paint after Palm Springs in springtime, it was a good trip
LA must have been brutal on the way back to the house.
It was. 6 hours. Over 6 hours...If the truck still has most of it's paint after Palm Springs in springtime, it was a good trip
And dont forget the Cochella festival was over on Sunday, all those people on the 10. I missed it because I went thru about 5ish AM. My brother got stuck, 4 hour delay!
That whole music festival in the desert in wind season just confounds me. One of these days they're going to have one of those winds that strips the paint off every car in the parking lot and blows the stages all the way to Az.
Silver solder tinned copper
Oh, and...I never did, but the guys that did the cables regularly for the forklift service companies had to get their blood tested for lead. Be sure to add that cost to your cables. lol
For batteries we got cables with the lead loop terminal on the end. Used a drill to remove old cable that left a post on the battery. Kinda like a thick hole saw with a spring loaded center. Sit the cable over the post. Wrapped wet rag around it. Melt the post and work the edge of the terminal into the puddle. Then add lead to fill and keep working the edge. Hit the side too hard with the heat and it's fubarred. LOLWe used to do similar cables for the C-130 generators. You can solder the new ends on but had to be super carefull not to melt the ferrul on the new terminal. Heat had to be just right. Always did them off the aircraft cause if you went to hot it was melted lead alloy all over the plane. You had to get it 100% cleaned up. Really sucked for the sheet metal guys if it went into a seam!
