MOPED ARMY

I'm fixing 2 Tomos now, every detail shade tree to the max. Making them nice. But damn people sure are 1/2 assed. And I see it here on this site also. You can tell a 1/2 ass'd short cutter because he uses the work "just" to describe what he's about to do or whatyou should do. "Just" means I know I could do better but this is as much of a damn as I am willing to give. Heat shrink rocks. I own a least 1 km of it.

It's just mopeds man.

butt connectors and electrical tape...

I disagree, I think there is a right way and a wrong way to put on electrical tape. If used correctly and if you don't go overboard with it then I see no reason why you cant use it. It's definitely better than whatever this is.

That^ is actually a good option . Takes a bit to cure , but , it seals well and it's permanent . I use it on wire connections I plan on not visiting again .

Specially where the connection won't be seen .

Yeah.... ONLY for marking Negative wires in light switch boxes.

Nothing else is allowed though

You definitely can't just use it to tape a piece of paper to the wall or for any other of the probably hundreds of completely illegitimate purposes for it.

Light switch boxes only.

/s

Honestly, I'd prefer the hot glue over electrical tape. Anyway, what's the big deal? Just cut the whole junction out, I doubt you need that extra inch. Almost any connection is going to look pretty shitty. Butt connectors, solder+heatshrink, electrical tape, fucking wire nuts, all look bad and add a bunch of bulk. You might as well just use a terminal block at that point, at least that looks kind of stock.

But what's the point, if youre worried about how it looks why not just run new wire all over and cover it with braided sleeving or something similar.

Most performance applications now solder is even passe. It's all about solid crimps and shrink tubing.

I like this idea very much... my wiring is shit.

Sure, if your crimping with your 9.99 crimper/stripper and a 4 dollar pack of those blue butt connector crimps.

You can get some bad man crimp tools, AWG sized crimps and ratcheting crimpers that make a fantastic low profile connection. Once you put the glue type shrink tubing on, it's a waterproof and strain relieved connection. Most all of the bad boy telecoms connectors, aviation connectors, automotive and industrial connections are crimp.

the inability to control the wicking of the solder into the core of the wire and the acid in the flux used to make the solder flow is not ideal and makes the wire brittle and more prone to corrosion and breaking. At least thats what they say anyway.

But hey, they do this stuff on airplanes, automotive applications and telecoms, so I mean what do they know?

Me:"haha, yea, isn't that crazy, heh heh, yep that's halfassed, never see me do that, hehheh"

*quietly stands in front of bikes so nobody can see my wiring, tries to hide the wire nuts under the carpet...

Dan’s right. Marine grade heat shrink FTW!!

but whattabout hot glue and no shrinktube

I have been doing electrical work for more than half my life now. We only use vinyl tape to mark and assist in the install of equipment. It is in no way a method of waterproofing, wrong tape. Exposed equipment needs to breathe and dry out the tape traps moisture and rots the connection. People who work on these things just cringe when we see them, it's just a dirty sticky mess that you don't want to work on. You just rip it all out and try to salvage what you can. Using tape for sealing is complicated and requires multiple tapes to make work. Note in the video a cold shrink tube and like three different tapes are used to get it done.