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Default Trailer Wire Repair

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:49:09 -0000, Bose wrote:

What would be recommended to cover
the bare wire after I solder it back together?


I would recommend tying a new wire to end of the old wire and just pulling
it through.

If you don't do that, then don't solder the wire. The bouncing of a boat
or a boat trailer will break the solder sooner or later--clamp it, then
put shrink wrap around it to seal it (you can get the
shrink-with-a-hair-dryer kind at Radio Shack for very small change. But
by the time you get the shrink wrap to where you want it, it will have
been more trouble then pulling a new wire.

Electrical tape will hold when wet for a while, but will eventually
unravel.

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