High grade connectors

[Todd Israels]

At 06:47 PM 2/8/99 -0800, you wrote:
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>Can anyone point me to a mail-order (a Web store would be excellent)
>source of good weatherproof electrical connectors?  I don't need think
>I need Mil-Spec or aerospace grade, but something better than the stuff
>you'd see at a typical hardware store.  The car I hack on has an engine
>compartment that's pretty much open to the weather, so I need them to be
>rugged.
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>james montebello
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	The Amphenol Mil-Spec work well and arent insanely expensive just pricey
the other solution is to go to the local boneyard and liberate some from
hacked up harnesses when presented with a handfull they usualy say $5 -$10
for the lot.  Use the crimp method sujested in the GM repair Manuals or
solder and heatshrink with wither silicone or water proffing grease in the
heatshrink before shrinking from the center out.  This has worked wonders
on trailer light wiering including full submersion in salt water.  Ther is
a thought that solder causes fatige and breakage at the solder-wire boundey
and either end oit the splice thoug i have never experinced this(secure the
harness well)