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Here's what I did: Ground Straps aren't stocked at my local stealer, ("I can order you one from Germany, blah, blah, OEM is a little expensive but blah blah") and a search on pelican parts turned up nothing. So, I went to a couple local parts stores- and they only had nasty thin aluminum straps- and were surprisingly pricey. I asked about copper- and was told it was "too expensive" so the aftermarket companies are making them out of copper coated aluminum, or aluminum. They could special order me one in copper- but it would be over $35 plus tax, shipping, and etc. I moved on.
I picked up a 2 guage copper core battery cable at a discount store for $4. One end had a terminal that was the right size, but the other end had one of those "screw-in" battery terminals. I cut it to length using a hacksaw, (was happy to see good quality small stranded wire in the cable) and went and picked up a set of ring terminals (to fit 4 to 2ga cables) at a discount parts store for $5. I then cut the insuation back on the cable and old-school crimped the ring terminal on. Then I used my propane torch and soldered the ring terminal onto the cable, put corrosion inhibitor on it, wrapped it with tape- and installed it.
Reading it here, it sounds very simple- but it was a waste of nearly a day tracking this stuff down and building this thing. Hopefully it will provide many years of happy er.. grounding.
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