On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:46:26 -0400, Larry W4CSC
wrote:

Don White wrote in
:

a little over $ 300.00

package of blue butt end splices for #14-16 wire at Waste Marine - $7.80
Same exact package at Charleston Hardware store - $1.99
probably even cheaper at Home Depot....?? ///

Amateurs think that cheap split/rolled crimp connectors are
functionally identical to pro-style tubular crimps.
They aren't.
In a memorable epithet of Larry's, its BS

Brian Whatcott Altus OK