From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [SPAM] Aircraft wiring practices
To: lml
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:10:09 -0500
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Posted for Duane Allen <c177av8r@pacbell.net>:

  I've been reading the many postings about aircraft wiring.
  Let me say this about that.
  When I first started building cable harnesses back in the early sixties we
did use solder pot connectors and then used potting compound on the backside
to provide wire support (strain relief).  In the remaining 45+ years since
then, most military, government aircraft and airlines have stopped using
solder connections for some of the reasons mentioned in the postings.
  As for me, I have made so many thousands of connections I couldn't even 
guess
but probably more than one for every dollar you have invested in your Lancair
project.
  To this date, I know of no failures in any of the connectors I have made
using crimp connectors.  When I worked for NASA in the atmospheric research
program I basically rewired the experiments (for which I was responsible) on
each deployment due to changes in requirements of the experiment.  There were
many of those.
  I have flown instruments in some of the cleanest air on the earth (looking 
at
aerosols) and some in the deepest of hurricanes and cyclones looking at water,
ice and aerosols.  I could tell you some interesting stories about that but
this is not the place for that.
  My purpose is not to criticize or defend anyone else's work, but I will say,
quality of workmanship is of prime importance.  I've seen many experiments of
others which sacred me to just look at knowing they'd have problems on
deployment and usually they did.  Enough said.
  Many thanks to Marv for cleaning up the posts by those who reply the entire
messages back to the list without cutting and pasting, leaving only enough of
the original posters comments to follow the thread.  I now subscribe to the
digest and find it so much easier to read.  I was getting brain fried scanning
the same old stuff over and over looking for new information in the postings.
  Thanks Marv.  Your efforts are  appreciated.
  duane LNCE