How To Solder Boat Trailer Wires

Cut off about 12 and strip and see if the wire is better looking.

How to solder boat trailer wires. Feed wire through canister and shrink tube. Let it cure and you wont have any probs. Run the Wires Boating Magazine.

Use heat shrink tubing to protect the soldered connection. There are proper ways to solder such wires if you know the methods. My boat trailer beeps.

Have a helper stand back to see if the running lights stoplights and blinkers are working properly. Do NOT use acid flux. Tap the end of the 6337 solder on top of the wire splice so the solder melts down into the wires.

Then take the two ends and push then directly into each other. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 9 of 9 Posts. Im in the process of hard wiring in a 7 pin plug to my trailers 5 wires.

It may be necessary to run the wires inside a tubular frame member or rings along the frame. Remove them and splice them using proper crimp-type butt splices or bare the wires place heat shring tubing over the wires join the splice solder and then shrink the tubing over the splice. Use the old wires to pull.

Then slide the connector back over the overlapped wires until the solder ring is directly over them. Two types of a trailer wiring tester. Ideally the inside portion of the barrel includes serrations which are designed to cut into and take hold of the wire as the crimp is made ensuring a good mechanicaland electricalbond.