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Originally Posted by vwnate1
Copper I see, maybe soldering them would have done the trick .
As I get older I do more and more soldering in my vehicular electrical repairs, once and done .
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The thing is a piece of crap, not worth the time. Plus the only thing that hold those terminals in place is those rubber seals that go in the back. They have no locking tabs. When you install a fuse it feels like its held in with rubber bands.
I just ordered the terminals for the Littlefuse block. They were expensive, about $110 for all of them with about 20% of each style extra. The only problem now is that one of the terminal part numbers is on back order for 5 weeks. Not the end of the world. I only need 2 of those for the Aux fan which will no longer be required for another 6 months.
A note on soldering. The US military's will not allow the use of soldered connectors on their aircraft. Lots of testing was done on this and the crimp connectors were not found to be superior, But they were found to be certainly adequate, repeatable and most of all inspect able. Inspect able being the biggest factor. Too many things can go wrong with solder that you cant see. Especially when you upside down trying to reach that connector in the tail cone of some tiny fighter that parked on a ship in sea state 5.