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so here's an example of that

corrosion you can see it's a terminal

open-ended terminal right no heat shrink

and over time the wires simply literally

disintegrated and disconnected itself

now you know if it's the small appliance

like I don't know like a light that's

just a nuisance right well depends what

type of light all right if it's just a

light in your cabin no big deal but if

it's a nav light that could be pretty

serious

it's a bilge pump that's pretty damn

serious so again you know if you have

something you always want to be able to

depend on it and nothing drives us more

crazy generally than intermittent

problems or things that stopped working

randomly right so that would be

something that why you should think

about insulation and making sure that

over time corrosion doesn't eat the wire

way so what's your formula for success

if you're gonna actually do crimps on

board the first thing is you've got to

choose proper marine wiring on votes

some owners especially more legacy boats

the worst case would be solid wire

that's and you can find that on older

boats that had AC systems added on to

them so where that's where you have a

solid strand wire right like literally

house wiring and you've got that from

boats from the 70s and 80s where

originally they didn't have AC on board

and some house electrician came on board

and just simply recreated what would

happen in a house on a boat and so

you're gonna have solid core AC wire if

you have that on board and that's

generally a do-it-yourself you really

have to be concerned because over time

especially with boats because of

vibration there's there is definitely a

possibility where that wire is actually

going to leave shear off right between

winter and then you're gonna have this

kind of on-off on-off on-off connection

coming on and that could be a cause for

fire the other thing too that you've got

before I forget on on marine wiring you

also want to make sure that you have

fine so it's multi strand

right and it's tint now a lot of votes

even recently built both are using

especially in the larger cabling they're

using non tin cabling and you'll some

people call it well you see it it's

actually it comes from the application

of welding wire really stiff wire the

jacket is actually and we'll talk about

that a little bit later the jacket might

not be appropriate so something to think

about well I'm going to go through them

one by one a little bit later on anyway

so I don't want to spend too much time

you've got you want to make sure you

choose the right terminals right so the

right terminals if you've got a really

shitty terminal and the terminal is like

five cents and it looks terrible and it

just you just feel it no matter what you

do to that terminal and how you do the

connection it's just not gonna give you

the right thing right and you always

want to what I always recommend to other

owners and I certainly do a board my own

boat is when I think about my time

invested in doing something on my boat

and all the things I have to do

constantly and the list is always adding

I always tell myself do I want to redo

that in five or 10 years do I want to

recommand redo this crimp and take a

short cut now so that I actually have to

come and redo that crimp five to ten

years from now and for me the answer is

no because I still always have more

stuff looking ahead and so when I do

something I don't want to always have to

look behind and worry about something

that in relatively short term just

happened five or ten years ago

I don't mind revisiting something much

later on but you want to give yourself

enough horizon so that you don't have to

constantly redo something that you just

recently did we'll talk about a little

bit about adhesive line tubing so that's

kind of heat shrink right and how you

prevent corrosion from happening at the

joint between terminal and a wire the

right tools for the job and then the

right technique for the job okay so this

would be a picture of you know a little

bit some maybe bad connection right this

is a bonding system on one boat on the

left hand side and on the right hand

side that's a client that decided to

expand a terminal strip by putting a

bunch of terminals to a not putting

electrical tape in between

didn't even bother actually heat

shrinking the terminals and they're

about buck or two each so he bought not

he bought heat shrink terminals but

never applied heat to actually make them

you know corrosion proof so again I

actually see that quite often a lot of

do-it-yourselfers or even so-called pros

are gonna be using the right gear but

they're not actually gonna be using the

right technique to actually make use of

the proper terminal alright so if you're

choosing marine wine what are the things

you should look at and why why does it

matter it matters because first of all

with marine wiring you can actually have

you're gonna have different colors to

mean different things and sure everyone

could drive on the right or the left

side of the road you could drive home in

Reverse if you wanted to you could drive

in Reverse on the right side of the road

if you felt like it and all that road

would still lead you back home and

that's the philosophy that some people

have is like well a wires a wire really

what does the jacket mean it's what I

intend to do with the wire that matters

and I'm gonna wire my whole boat in

black and that works it does work it

really does but the problem with that is

you need to know what each wire does and

if it ever becomes disconnected or

someone else comes and has a look at it

the if they ever get them reversed and

they don't get it reversed under no load

so no voltage they do the connection

they turn a switch on and then suddenly

you know they don't have the ability of

disconnecting or they're not there to

see what's happening your boats gonna

there's a high probability you're gonna

have serious damage the wires gonna melt

the insulation of the jacket is gonna

melt it's gonna be a dead short right

and that would be really serious so

that's why the standardization of colors

is really good different colors for

different meanings and if you buy marine

grade wiring you can easily get that the

other thing too is what I was talking

about multi strand so when you think

about welding cable it's pretty rigid

but if you take fine multi strand

cabling you'll see it's really malleable

you can really and so on a boat when the

engine is running you've got a lot of

vibration and so

or at seas so that's the advantage of

having marine wiring also it's flexible

for install the big thing too that most

people is underappreciated is that

welding wire for example the jacket of a

welding wire is actually not oil proof

and that's actually I was on a boat

three years ago where the boat had nice

welding wire properly laid up against

the bulkhead cabin really nice all held

in place and above that there was raker

fuel filters and one of the rig are few

filters leaked happens right I mean they

delete sometimes the leak landed on the

welding cable and the welds and cable

where the leak landed the jacket melted

off so he had two wires running side by

side luckily they were well supported

because both wires were completely bare

norm or a kid on the wire and they were

a positive negative going to an engine I

unfused so if they would have ever

touched the boat would be gone I mean

there's no it being like a fire wire and

so when you have welding wire on board

make sure that it will never be exposed

to any type of oils or fuel okay and

then obviously because the wire is

tinned it's it's better at inhibiting

corrosion than welding wire which is

simply bare copper all right this is

another example of someone not being

able to fit you know a large gauge wire

into a terminal right so they've got it

gauge ten twenty or ten twelve connector

on a 20 amp breaker and that cable is

probably probably looks like a gauge

eight and so what they did is they fit

whatever strands they could fit and you

can notice that cable or wires actually

solid strand pretty much not solid but

it's not certainly marine you can see

the strands are way too big and so they

just fit what they can and this is how I

found it on one of the boats so that

would be unacceptable absolutely

especially under load

all right so when it comes to choosing

the right terminal for doing an

electrical job you want to choose the

right right type of terminal for the job

right like you know are you going to be

using a ring connector is it a spade is

it a butt connector is it a disconnect

and the other thing you want to do is

you actually want to have the right size

right especially for a ring or even for

Spain and fork for the right screw type

right because there's going to be

different sizes so you don't want to

have a gauge you know number 10 if the

faster that you're going to be using is

or a 5/16 ring on a number 10 screw and

I see that all the times they'll put the

screw in and they'll cinch it down and

it'll get just a little bit top edge and

that's going to be sufficient yes it

works I'm not saying it doesn't work

under load but it's not right and it

could be a problem point okay the other

thing you've got to ask yourself is what

type of terminals am I going to use am I

going to use heat-shrink terminals or am

I going to use nylon terminals right

nylon terminals obviously offer come at

a better price point but they don't

offer there's no insulation for heat

shrink so you can't make it a completely

sealed connector so that's a trade-off

and as a boat owner you got to decide

you know am i wanting to risk erosion on

this connection over time you know five

ten fifteen twenty years from now and

that's or do you simply do heat shrink

and pretty much forget about it

so those are the different types of

terminals you can choose these are

pictures of what happens on loose

connections that's a loose Fork

connection on a neutral bus on the right

and on the left hand side that's a

volume our electrical outlet where the

connections are simply plugged in and it

was a loose connection on the neutral so

all right what about a deist like heat

shrink well the reason why you do it is

to offset corrosion normally I would

suggest that you buy you know if you're

gonna do probably yellow and red would

be better than yellow and or black and

red black in AC means death and indeed

see it means benign so a byc has been

shifting to not use black on DC for that

reason because it's pretty obvious when

you see black to odd that it's probably

not AC wiring but if you've got a number

8 gauge or number six gauge or a number

10 gauge is it a DC wire or is it an AC

water it couldn't really be both and

then it's contacts that makes you figure

out what it is but really one would kill

you and the other one is like touching

your engine alright so they're so

completely different in terms of their

consequences that a Bui C has been

shifting to yellow for DC so I encourage

you if you're buying heat shrink and you

want to color code your terminals make

sure you put yellow on the DC grounds

right the DC connections and then put

positive as red you want to use heat to

properly shrink down the insulation like

I was saying not everyone knows that

even if you buy a heat shrink connector

the properties of prohibiting or

preventing corrosion are only delivered

if you actually shrink down the heat

shrink itself with a heat gun it might

be a little butane torch with scale

right because it could burn you got to

know what you're doing but he got his

good take slower he torches faster but

you could have it you gotta have a right

distance right so that you don't char

the terminal or the wiring and then also

what knowing what the shrink ratio is

right because now all you trink are the

same some are dual walls some aren't and

the other advantage to with heat shrink

is it actually is another really good

connection point so it as if further

makes it harder for that connection to

get undone these are examples of what

happens on a bad crimp so the terminals

themselves were really good on the

circuit breakers they weren't loose or

anything and you can see the wire

actually melted off like it's some of

the wires actually were gone like it's

so much current going through it so much

heat that the wire actually melts off

so again depending on the make of your

boat and how everything is closed by

that heat when it's generated can be

pretty problematic and that's what

happens with AC shore power receptacles

you know generally where they are

they're surrounded in a fiberglass right

because it's a metal enclosure but

everywhere where that normally is

mounted is wood or fiberglass and as

that connection gets really hot it

actually ignites the fiberglass around

it and then the boat just keeps going

alright so I brought different tools and

we've got different tools I'm not sure

if we do it on this table or probably

this table over here different tools

that are the right types of tools for

the job I would say that the first thing

that you're probably gonna want is to

get what's called a wire stripper of

some sort there's different tools you

can see I've got I brought another one

here there's different models right

everyone's gonna have something that

feels right to them

Romeo has a certain way of doing it

there's not a one-size-fits-all solution

for wire strippers I like this one the

other one here on the left is pretty

popular some people like the the one on

the right it's really up to you what's

important we'll talk about the technique

is making sure the end result is right

you don't want to cut any strands right

you don't want to lose and it's not

acceptable that you say oh well most of

them are there it's fine you just don't

want to lose if you're taking a jacket

insulation jacket off a wire and you're

seeing a lot of strands come out on your

head you should probably redo the end

cut it off again and start over to make

sure that that wire is completely

integral when you're doing in doing the

terminal

looking at crimpers there's again a wide

selection I'm showing two examples I

have one here which Western Marine lend

us a bunch we have two or three of them

here and this is actually probably the

easiest and safest no-brainer way of

doing a crimp so if you're thinking of

tackling an electrical project on your

boat I mean this is not as cheap as some

of the tools out there but this

ratcheting crimp is always going to make

sure that for every single size of

terminal you're gonna have the right

pressure on that on that terminal and on

the bigger jobs like you know the ones

that have to go through code and whatnot

which is not at the smaller boat market

but like real boats you actually have to

use this tool you can't do it any other

way because this guarantees the right

crimp every time the other ones are

really something that happens over time

through experience so I would say if

you're not an expert at crimping this is

probably one way to offset lack of

experience would be using a tool like

that this is a from anchor I've got at

the end you can come and see when we're

going to be doing the demos and Romeo is

gonna be doing some of the wire crimping

you can see I've got a bunch of these

crimpers so you can have a look at that

okay anchor is not the only one that

does it but we like it we use it

the idea is you basically want to have a

ratcheting crimper okay yeah

pardon welding rod

a welding wire a welding wire is is a

sort of wire that you'll find on most

boats and it's a wire that is built

specifically for welders in mind

well there's use electrical wire to

actually weld and it's to deliver power

when they're actually welding and the

one thing that's maybe for not really

considered oh yeah you're that yeah

there's an example of welding wire and

actually this is the one that you can

come have a look this is the one where

the client actually put rescue tape this

is the wire that melted off from diesel

fuel I kept it because it's just so

unbelievable and what you got to

remember is when a welder buys a cable

for welding he never thinks he's not

investing you know his thing that is

honey I bought the cables are gonna be

good for 20 years I'm so happy I

invested in them I'll never have to buy

another pair of welding cables again you

know they buy the cable after a year

they're gonna buy another cable but on a

boat whatever you put on a boat you're

not changing your wiring every 20 every

year you're changing it maybe never it

might be there for 30 40 50 years right

boats aren't discarded after five years

or ten years they've got a long history

right a long life so the problem is when

you take a short cut and you use welding

wire and the reason you do that is

because the cost is so good the builders

are gonna use them because you're trying

to save pennies that's what it is

and that's fine but if you have that you

have to know its limitations so if

you've got welding wire and you can see

it Sun tint right so it means that it's

gonna it's copper it's gonna oxide and

then when it's cost rise is going to

provide more resistance you want to make

sure that you take all the other extra

steps to make sure that that wire is not

gonna see any water limit the moisture

that it sees closed-ended connectors all

these different things so that you don't

have corrosion okay so the technique

that Romeo is going to do when looking

at doing terminals is first of all you

got to make a decision for you what's

your budget and what's the application

you're doing are you going to go with a

nylon term

or a he drinker role in our business we

use Dietrich everything for me and it's

a question it's a question that every

one of us has to answer it's not worth

for me doing a connection that in five

ten or fifteen or twenty years is gonna

come apart for me whatever step I do

forward I want to make sure that I don't

go back but that's my choice okay so all

of us have to make that decision for

ourselves the other thing that's really

important and you see that a lot and

this is a common mistake the worst is

actually to take too little of the

jacket insulation so you put the wire

into the terminal and you're actually

crimping on the insulation not on the

wire itself on the metal so you can have

a really bad cream or a partial crimp

because realistically the metal the

metal connection that's supposed to

happen is actually gonna have part of

the insulation in there and so that

could be really hazardous so that's one

thing and the other thing too is having

to tool it like you were moving too much

of the jacket and that happens as well

and then what you're doing is depending

on the type of crimp you're supposed to

have some part of the jacket because

another part is gonna go and actually

crimp on to that right so you don't want

to have too little or too much you have

to have the right amount it's easy if

you do it too much you cut the wire

start over and do it again right and

over time you'll get a sense of what is

the right amount to remove so you make

sure it you never you make sure as you

put it in that you don't actually that

you always see the seam right because

otherwise you're wondering did the

jacket actually go into the sleeve of

the terminal okay that's really

important make sure you know what I do

is I actually I turn a little bit the

strands to make sure that all the

strands are actually going to go into

the terminal you see that to some people

put the strands and the strands start

flaring out now it's fine for a terminal

that's in the air by itself nothing else

but in a lot of applications you're

going to have terminal to terminal to

terminal and if you've got a positive

touching another positive and one

circuit breaker is off and the other

ones on then the currents going to go

through one wire to the other wire it

back down so you want to make sure that

there's no loose strands coming out of a

terminal you want to crimp the right

amount you're thinking well how do I

know that

if you've got a ratcheting crimper you

won't have to figure that out if you

don't then what's gonna happen is you

want to be able to crimp the wire hard

enough that you don't obviously break

the insulation

all right that's obvious and also what

you're gonna do is what's called and

that's the ultimate thing that you

should always do is do a pull test and

honestly unengaged

I don't know what it is but on engage

ten wire or twelve you can pull us

pretty much as hard as you can and that

terminal can't come off so don't be

scared of saying well I don't want to

break it it's actually counterintuitive

but if you can actually pull it off that

means you don't have a good crimp and if

you don't have a good crimp under load

ie when the current is running through

it at maximum capacity potentially you

could have resistance which causes heat

which causes more resistance and it

snowballs and then the last thing

depending on what type of terminal

you've used you can apply heat shrink so

if you bought if you decide to go with

heat shrink then what you would do is

you apply the heat shrink on the

terminal on the insulation and then it

would shrink down and you want to see it

literally evenly done and you want to

see it who's at the bottom there's gonna

be a little bit of a gel that's gonna

come out and then once that's done and

it's cold again you do a pull test

because you gotta wait till it's cold

because otherwise it's gonna distort and

then you're done with the terminal if

you do it properly and I see it on votes

that are really well built

you'll never I mean honestly it's it's a

generation like in 30 40 years 50 years

I mean some boats that I see they're

really really well done like Hatteras

you know they're built in the 70s and

they've been to everywhere not just in

our waters where it's the salinity is

not that high but like clearly

everywhere the terminals are out there

they were taken down with care they're

still gonna be good and then you've got

other guys that are doing stuff and tape

cutting corners and just and then maybe

after five 10 years or 15 years

depending at what happens on the boat

especially if there's a lot more

moisture than those connectors could

literally fall off okay so that's kind

of like the reason for why it matters

and what you should do so the next thing

we're going to do is I'm gonna bring you

to the table if you want to see and I'm

gonna have Romeo show you how do crimps

and there's a bunch of other crimpers

there and people can ask questions

yeah there's a question yeah

well you know the good thing is that

okay so the question is how do I know if

it's automotive cabling or marine wire

well first of all you could generally

get a sense just by the feel of the wire

the wire feels stiff it's not marine

okay at the end of the day marine wire

is very flexible that would be one day

one way there's also a ul code that I

don't know offhand

there's your ul code that's gonna say

there's not that many manufacturers of

marine wiring right there's an an Corps

there's a what's the other Alamo and I

can't there's a few other companies but

not that much and they'll actually gonna

brag about it like nobody's gonna be

building a marine cable and go incognito

okay like it's like it's like having if

you have a smart charger nobody's not

going to put smart on the device if it's

a smart charger they'll just call it a

charger right if they're not anything

else than that but nobody in marketing

is ever not gonna take you know brag

about something to differentiate because

at the end of the day when you look at

the cabling the price difference is

significant okay

multiples of it's not like welding cable

is like $1 a foot and you know marine

wiring is a dollar ten it's not a 10%

increase it could be literally multiples

of so if it's if the jacket looks crispy

too like over time Marine welding wire

especially in a marine environment

you'll see actually the insulation of

the jacket is actually gonna crack it's

almost gonna be like dry skin and you're

gonna actually see I've seen some boats

where they literally are peeling off

like almost like oranges like they're

actually cracking off because it's been

20 30 years right and over time that

welding wire was not meant to be used

for 30 years in a marine environment it

was used to be used by a welder for a

year throw it away buy a new set of

cables so that might be the way that how

you would know there is actually when

you look at Ethernet wiring so that's

probably you talking about communication

yes there are different types of

Ethernet wires out there and there's

definitely there's actually even

connectors that are for marine you can't

find that anywhere

you got to go online but absolutely

there are there are definitely Ethernet

connectors rj45 that are meant for

marine applications and you'll find them

for example we work on some bigger

yachts like hundred footer plus and a

lot of them will have a lot of ip-based

communications on those boats and on

that you're going to be using different

not just your standard Ethernet cable

that you're gonna have in a homeland

environment and their spec for that as

well you pay more for it obviously but

again probably better a lot of those

cables generally are mission-critical

type of applications on the larger

yachts and so you can't it's not a

convenience thing they absolutely need

that cable to be integral for the

duration foreseeable duration of the

service any other questions

all right without much ado then I'm

gonna bring you to the table so that you

guys can see the crimps being done by

Romeo and I'll be able to answer any

questions there so the problem is when

you're you're yourself a

do-it-yourselfer and you what's your

limit how many crimps are you gonna do

in a year it's harder right and it's

that exactly so they do it so what's

really good to offset that lack of

experience that Romeo has right he can

do it in his sleep he probably being

coma he'd be able to do crimps but where

you want to do is something like that

it's always gonna be the right one and

remember what I was saying at the

beginning what's interesting is that you

don't have room for error right it's not

getting 99 like honey I did amazing I

got 99.9 right it's the one that you got

wrong that is one too many

so that's why this makes more sense but

when you do that that's like a wide-open

door so what you're really protecting is

it's almost four really it's of no use

putting heat shrink on the side here

when the tongue is open it's of no

benefit and especially on the larger

lugs right a larger lugs are like you

know maybe about this big and you put a

heat shrink on the scene and you've got

all the wires open and your thing well

moisture is not gonna go up what happens

is over time as the wire is being used

it heats up right guess what happens

when it heats up and it cools down

moisture gets wikked in and out

and that moisture on an untenured I'd go

on boats those have been in service for

20-30 years you start cutting the white

okay we got a bad connection two inches

four inches six eight a foot a foot and

a half I've got a two feet deep until

you get bare copper all of that is

completely oxidized well then at one

point the problem is well the problem is

well that's the thing too is that one

point is how long is the wire run right

a lot of them at that point it's too

short and if you're gonna service you

should bring to terminal strip you

should not put a buck connector and then

you got to put somewhere put another

wire but it's another weak point if it's

a starter circuit you're not gonna do

that

you shouldn't have every connection is a

potential failure so that's what I'm

saying is like I had a client that had a

relatively new boat and he had made in

China open in and lugs copper copper

antenna wire welding wire with just heat

ring on the side and I told the owner I

said if I were you one weekend well you

should do is kind of every single one of

those lugs you're gonna lose this much

now you can still service all of it but

in five or ten years if this is a long

play for you when the the jacket is

gonna be the the corrosion is gonna be

six inches deep you won't have enough

and then it's too late

so now is your opportunity to fix it

before it gets bad terminal connector

well because they normally do those yeah

that's right yeah or they'll still do

like for example they do that on our

boards for example they'll have this

stud it's gonna be a double it's not a

switch it's like you've got one terminal

from the engine right from the outboard

and then one going to the battery

all right so because normally a lot of

the cables that come on a Yama or Honda

aren't that good quality wiring they're

not right and so what you do is the

student comes into the boat you bring it

to this bus bar right it's like and it's

got pot it's going to literally have

multiple studs pairs and some of the

wires you terminate and then the other

ones go out and it's also the place to

troubleshoot right looks like okay I got

power right - almost the outboard

I see it there if I don't see it there

you know it's coming in pretty much in

the outboard Joe can you make

as good as this with reach rank if you

know no because you won't it's never

gonna be the same it won't be the same

that's what I'm saying it's like if I

put this I don't bother putting eat

drink if I'm gonna use eat wrink then

I'm gonna use this type of terminal yeah

yeah look exactly that's it that's done

no there's a heat ring terminal heat

shrink and you can give them and I mean

literally the price is huge between the

two yeah I mean yeah I mean this is free

effectively almost you can buy them it's

not five cents I don't I mean it seems

significant this if you're gonna choose

or on my boat I do it all with this but

as an owner you if you're in the bills

you should do this if it's a life

critical application nav lights write a

nav light is up in the bow you know

you're gonna see water there you know

you should heat shrink if you're gonna

do an anchor light do this right because

you're the hassle of going up it's gonna

take forever all those things that are

not serviceable you should be targeting

having these then you might say well I'm

only putting on all my downrigger in

four five years and that may be you

start taking shortcuts and be using

these ones I like these ones but I mean

it in a day everyone has a budget right

so it depends it comes like this yeah

all like that okay and then the heat

shrink encloses you correct that's right

that's we have exactly way too much

should be just correct that's right no

not on these ones not on this type this

one here is a double crimp when you put

it in depending on the these ratcheting

Clippers have double crimps they'll do

one on here and one on and a lighter one

yeah that's right yeah yeah so so what I

was saying earlier was you really got to

make sure that and I've seen that and

this is the worst is you cut too little

insulation and then you actually have

the insulation going in underneath and

that's the worst right so you always

have to be able to see it's like a fine

line you have to see a fine line you

have to see the insula jacket and see

this you've got to barely see the metal

and then a metal starts on the wire

if you don't see it it's underneath and

the question is how far underneath is it

so don't say well it's not too much I

don't think right because also when you

crimp down now you a part of that

terminal won't be able to touch the wire

so you basically you should see it stick

a note well you want the wire to reach

yeah and that's the other thing too like

on these ones it's harder because but on

this one you want to be able to see

correct that's right yeah that's right

so you want to just and you know if

you're gonna do it in priority think

about what are things are life-critical

on your boat like if you're gonna if

you're dependent on your GPS that'd be a

good one to start doing your anchor

light it's pretty important Naville ight

pretty important bilge pumps utterly

important and those are the ones that if

you're gonna spend time on doing them

properly you know take these connections

and take just do it slow because once

you've done it you'll never have to do

it again all right so you don't want to

just hammer them out they've got a gun

to your head yeah that is actually that

is blue in there it is part of it like

you see this actually you can actually

see the glue coming out you see that at

the end so this actually has glue in it

right now it's only it only comes out

when you apply the heat and it's gonna

shout and on the Lark yeah exactly and

you can see that on the larger you can

even see it on the larger terminals like

this is only a gauge 1416 but on the

twelve twelve ten or there's even eight

for heat trick like this you'll see a

lot of oohs coming out and you want it

when you're using a heat gun you want to

make sure that you evenly apply the heat

right so that you don't see any air

pockets anywhere because an air pocket

from one air pocket to another air

pocket in another pair is now

effectively it becomes effectively a

pathway for moisture to go in I you

can't do it all you can't

it's just can't redo everything I mean

it's nobody has the time it would take

thousands of hours and we run a small

boat so what you do is you just target

the ones that you think okay which ones

are the ones I matters the most to me or

for example some boats let's say for

example if you have a small power

the engine-room on a small powerboat can

have pretty humid pretty nasty place

when you think about it right like close

hatch

yeah the blowers come on but they only

come out some amount of time there's

always water in the bilge right that

place is horrible for corrosion like

it's horrible so if you've got terminal

strips in there or anything in there

that are going forward feeding forward

you want to redo all those connections

because the the humidity level is

through the roof right and especially in

the winter it's not that bad because

there's not able to suck the moisture

and at least the moisture is on the

ground but as in the summer when it's

warm the air can hold a lot more

moisture so the moisture that's in the

village now is in the air everywhere

right and it can it's touching

everything so you really want to make

sure that those areas that are high

moisture environments if you have any

types of these terminals in there that

would be the ones I would target the

ones into your boat in your cabin

they'll never get to super human right

because they're out in the environment

you know they're equalizing with it it's

not that bad but the ones in the engine

rooms are the worse those little boats

I'm talking about not the big trawlers

right

yeah I don't there's people that put in

lanta coat there's different sprays that

exist to cover connections yeah a lot of

coat there's all these different

products I find that I don't like them

because it attracts a lot of dirt but in

the Caribbean in Florida and the eastern

seaboard where there's a high much

higher level of salinity than in the

Pacific it's strongly encouraged here in

BC the salinity level in our local

waters is very low it is it's just the

water here it doesn't I mean if you swim

here and you swim in the Caribbean

you'll cry in the Caribbean okay and

like your eyes are burning

here you won't cry so the Saline level

is different a why he's bad - like the

rigging in Hawaii only last like ten

years you have to change it yeah you

have to change it it's gone but in BC

it's not the same so I guess for here I

don't think it's necessary I've got a

lot of my clients at boats from the 70s

and 80s that were well built like a lot

of Clint's with Hatteras or whatnot and

the boats are local and the connections

have never had it no problem but if

you're both leaving offshore and you're

gonna go in in those places then you

might want to think about using those

types of sprays in it it's an offset

between cleanliness right and corrosion

prevention practical sailor made a big

article about it they use Lana code they

put it out outside they sealed the box

they have the connections out there and

they had terminal strips literally with

some without and they left it every year

so it was an accelerated type of you

know marine environment you know it was

like salt water in there it was like

horrible environment and obviously the

ones that were protected and did better

they just do I just think it might be an

overkill in our waters here I think this

is probably the best way and then it's

just more manageable

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