Being in the middle of putting in a "Dan Master's" wiring scheme I am into
soldering bullets - although I try to replace them with spades whenever
possible. As I have only two hands I found it best to do as James says and
let the wire poke out the hole, I then splayed the wire so it would hold
the bullet when held dangling on the wire. I cut a small piece of flux
cored solder and dropped it in from the wire entry side. Held the wire
with bullet down (on the end of the wire) and touched with soldering iron
which melted solder and voila!! Trimmed of the excess wire and
solder. Maybe not the most elegant way but easy when working with wire you
cannot hold on the bench. With those on the bench I drilled a shallow
hole in a piece of wood to hold the bullet, dropped in a piece of solder
and applied heat. When all nice and hot pushed in lightly pre-soldered wire.
At 09:08 PM 11/29/2003, James Nazarian wrote:
>I've never had a problem soldering them personally but I was taught the
>proper way to do them. I'll describe it quickly just to make sure you are
>doing it the same way. Strip off about 3/8" of insulation, of course you
>need to make sure that you are at good, uncorroded, wire. Insert the wire
>into the bullet so that 1/16" or so sticks out the end of the bullets, you
>now want to solder the wire where it protrudes through the tip of the
>bullet. This shouldn't be hard or require much heat. If you are having
>trouble getting the solder to flow, then use some flux.
>
>James Nazarian
>71 MGB Tourer
>71 MGBGT V8
>85 Dodge Ram
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <BarrMark262@aol.com>
>To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 1:11 PM
>Subject: Great source for MGB wiring with original bullet connectors
>
>
> > Hi Listers:
> >
> > Happy Thanksgiving to all on the this side of the pond.
> >
> > I have never been able to solder the bullet connectors that are on our
>wiring
> > harnesses whenever I needed a patch or extra wire. I always end up using
>one
> > of the "newer" style connectors which just don't work or look proper.
> >
> > So, this morning I began stripping back all of the blue wraps from my old
> > harness and exposed beautiful 30 year old "looks as new" wiring. The wires
>with
> > factory bullet connectors will now serve as my patches, as I do not mind
>making
> > a connection between two pieces with a conventional connector, and still
> > retaining one end with a factory bullet.
> >
> > Anyway, it works for me.
> >
> > Dennis
>
Regards
Barrie
Barrie Robinson
barrier@bconnex.net
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