Electrics: bodge or replace

freeridenick · Post by **freeridenick** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:09 pm

Stripped the knackered alarm off my rear loom yesterday which now needs to go back together.

The alarm wirers were all soldered onto the various wires so I cut them off close to the original wire as I could. Can I get away with bodging the exposed wires with shrink wrap and insulation tape or should I strip them all out and replace completely?

lloydie · Post by **lloydie** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 2:43 pm

Tidy them up and make safe ,
It'll be fine

fabiostar · Post by **fabiostar** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 5:29 pm

decent bullet connectors and do the job right the once..it will come back to haunt you if you dont.

freeridenick · Post by **freeridenick** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 6:54 pm

lloydie wrote:Tidy them up and make safe ,
It'll be fine

freeridenick · Post by **freeridenick** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 6:57 pm

fabiostar wrote:decent bullet connectors and do the job right the once..it will come back to haunt you if you dont.

Only one wire is actually split which I will have to use connectors. The rest are intact but had the insulation stripped off.

bigtwinthing · Post by **bigtwinthing** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 7:51 pm

freeridenick wrote:
fabiostar wrote:decent bullet connectors and do the job right the once..it will come back to haunt you if you dont.
Only one wire is actually split which I will have to use connectors. The rest are intact but had the insulation stripped off.

wire them into a chocolate block, then seal with some waterproof grease etc and cover with heat shrink don't burn the grease off .

tony.mon · Post by **tony.mon** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 8:57 pm

Or just sellotape them and never ride in the rain, or take it through a car wash for a bet.

No, I wouldn't either but back in the day a mate sellotaped the wiring on his BSA 650 Flash and then took it through the car wash for a bet, it never ran again but he won his £5 bet......

Post by **sirch345** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 11:44 am

I can't see the point in cutting wires which are not already cut if you can get heat shrink sleeving over the exposed bits,

Chris.

StuartWags · Post by **StuartWags** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 12:25 pm

solder and shrink wrap

Sir-knob-head · Post by **Sir-knob-head** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 6:27 pm

I have a loom untouched. Maybe we could trade them. As I need to cut mine down. I can trace them back and make good
Just an offer

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