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Posted by FDR on August 11, 2005, 12:51 pm
> AC line-cord for my table-fan (Vornado) finally frayed
> (just outside the fan), and so I need to toss that
> bad spot on the line-cord, and then reconnect the
> slightly-shortened power cord to the same wires
> inside the fan it was hooked to before.
>
> Having lost my soldering-gun some time ago,
> and not wanting to buy a new one, just in
> case my lost one turns up, I was looking
> through those wide-drawers r-shack keeps
> connectors, motors, buzzers, etc in.
>
> Noticed these things called "tap-in squeeze connectors",
> and bought several envelopes-full:
>
> some red ones (64-3053), for 12 to 10 gauge.
>
> some yellow ones, and blue ones.
>
> To use these things, you of course strip the wire-end,
> then insert one wire into one end, and the other into
> the other, and then with levered-type pliers you
> squeeze it like hell, and a little guillotine-like
> piece gets shoved against the two wires, and that makes
> the connection.
>
> QUESTION: is it ok to use these things for making
> the connection?
>
>
> ALSO: they also have little yellow tubes, maybe 1.5
> inches long, called "Butt Connectors:".
>
> No instructions, though, for these, not even a hint
> of how to use it.
>
> What, you're supposed to *crush* it somehow, once
> you have the two (insulated) wire's stuck into the
> two ends of the tube?
>
> Anyone know what to do?>
>
> (FYI: The yellow ones have part-num 64-3110.)
>
> And safety with this one (for use for putting a
> power cord onto an appliance)?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
I think you are better off going to a hardware or electrical store. I know
that many years ago there used to be plugs with screw on connections for
bare wire.
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