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 Posted: 16:50 - 27 Aug 2010  Post subject: Bodgeit and scarper! |
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Some time ago I had a wire from the ignition split and snap. We'd temporarily bodged it with a candybar connector and it's held til yesterday morning.
Sadly due to the wire having very little play the movement of the handlebars over time has caused the wire to break where it was held in the connector. It did this when i was just about to go out to collect my mums prescription and then take it up to her house.
So I wheeled it back to my house (was only 2 mins walk) and set to. went into the pile of crap in the shed (a pile of bits and pieces of machinery and electronics that no longer work) and grabbed a power cord. Stripped the ends, and using 2 candybar connectors I added the short length of wire to the existing ignition wire. Added electrical tape and jobs a good 'un.
I may do a proper job sometime but until then this will do 
Photo of the bodge, see if you can spot it..it's very well hidden!
https://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll68/asmodeanv/Bike/P1020091.jpg |
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| Posted: 17:26 - 27 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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Yeah chocolate blocks  Was the only connectors I had handy. What type would you recommend? |
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| Posted: 17:54 - 27 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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Only for the desperate! 
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| Posted: 21:05 - 27 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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Haven't soldered since I was 22 or so but I am sure I can manage..that's only 13 years ago.
Besides, it's only soldering 2 wires together, not exactly rocket science! Don't think I'd be up to soldering any stuff like circuit boards though |
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| Posted: 03:27 - 30 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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New proper cable here ready.
Heat shrink tubing here ready.
Soldering iron...on order, hopefully should arrive Tues/Weds hopefully the bodge fix will last until then!
I may not care for the appearance of my bike much but even for me that bodge is ugly |
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| Blue_SV650S wrote: | | Odie wrote: | chocolate blocks, bloody house hold wiring connector type thing, should never be used on a bike, hope it dont go at night on a back road.
get it sorted, your only putting off the inevetable. |
Why not?
There is nothing wrong with a choc-block .... if you can do household stuff with them (240v 13A AC mains), why should one squirm at the thought of some piddly 12v DC system!?!? 
Sure, solder and heat shrink is the way forward, but as a temporary measure, I see this is fine .... arguably much better than the standard 'twist and tape' which is normally employed in such situations!?!?! |
For me it isn't that it won't handle the power, as it will do that happily, it is the amount the wiring can shift around on a bike as opposed to a house where it is fixed.
Vibration and bumps will loosen the connectors off slightly, queue the wire falling out, not something I would use on a bike either |
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| Posted: 11:07 - 30 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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| Digit wrote: | Make sure that the iron is 75 watts or larger, the 25 watt ones won't do harness repairs.
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what a load of crap, Ive built wiring looms with a 15w iron with no failiures over the years.
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| Posted: 11:39 - 30 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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replace 'better' with 'quicker' and I'll agree.  
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| Posted: 12:02 - 30 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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chocolate blocks - fine short term, long-term they don't provide any strain relief and the metal bits rot in the damp, all of which makes you fume when you lift the seat off your "new" bike and find 50 of them in there 
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| Posted: 13:20 - 30 Aug 2010 Post subject: |
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We call them domino block connectors around these parts (can't for the life of me think why ). Anyways they are, as previously pointed out, crap and totally unsuitable for automotive usage. Often, whilst tightening the connector screws, you will sever a number of strands of wire and whats left will quickly corrode due to water ingress.
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