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>I crimped my battery cables with a bottle jack ( or sissor jack ) , a sorta
>sharp-angled piece of STEEL angle iron ( bed frame angle iron ) & #2 copper
>lugs. I simply positioned the cable--stripped- into the copper lug, shimmed
>under my car, found a stout frame member and placed the cable/copper lug
between
>the angle iron and the frame member of the car and jacked up to squash-- I
mean
>crimp- the assembly together. Took 5 minutes & cost nothing. I did this
for a
>friend a few weeks later but walked up the street & crawled under a truck to
>jack-crimp the cable(the truck was much heaver & produced a perfect crimp).
>Don't over jack to distort the copper lug.............happy crimping
It's also very easy to solder large terminals
onto fat wires . . .
see: http://www.aereoelectric.com/articles.html and page
down to "Big Connections" . . .
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