Re: Dropcord Pricing...

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 16:18:59 -0700, "Lew Hodgett"
<lewhodgett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Chase down the history of problems attempting to use welding cable for
onboard applications.

Hint: Welding cable is not tinned.

If you tin it yourself with a soldering iron when it is still new and
shinny you shouldn't have too many problems. Once it goes to green
grunge however, fuhgetabahdit.
.

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