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Message: [QUOTE="cowboy_dan, post: 180304, member: 258"] I've done it both ways, and had very good results both ways when I take the time to do it right. If I just hurry up and do a sloppy job, they both fail pretty quickly. I had a friend in college that refused to use crimp connectors because they always came apart on him. I told him it was because he wasn't crimping tight enough. We argued back and forth for a while, then I crimped a spade connector onto a wire, handed him the crimping tool, wire, and another connector and told him to crimp it on. He did. Then I clamped his connector in the vise, and had him jerk his wire out with a pair of pliers. Turned the wire around and clamped my connector in the vise, and he spent the next 5 minutes trying as hard as he could to pull/jerk/yank the wire out of the connector that I crimped. I took the pliers and couldn't get the wires to come out of my crimp either. Needless to say, he conceded that he wasn't crimping tight enough. For the wiring harness' we put on machines at work, they're some sort of glue/solder that is crimped without a ferrule, and covered with a flexible encapsulation. If it's done right, you'll break the wires on either end of the splice before you break the joint. Believe me, I've tried. [/QUOTE]

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