BUILD THREAD “The Juggernaut”

[scoti]

Mostly because I wanted to see if I could make fender washers work there. I even picked up some when I got the rest of the hardware, but unfortunately they won’t work unless I cut quite a bit off. They’d have to be more oval than round to fit in behind the flanges. Which isn’t entirely out of the question yet either.

Also, I was going for the largest possible footprint for the nuts to distribute the load as much as possible (hence the fender washers) and while strong, flange nuts typically don’t have that large of a footprint to them. They’re easy enough to get for 1/4” bolts, but much more difficult for the machine screw sizes like the 6-32 I’m using for the upper flanges.

Then weld flange nuts to the fender washers (?).

 

[random_farmhick]

I respectfully disagree, but to each their own I suppose. I’ve found in my experience that Deutsch connectors are very easy to disassemble, you merely pop out the locks, release the pins and pull the wires out. That was one (of many) reasons I chose them.

I do agree however that Deutsch connectors are far more compact than Weatherpak, and these DT series ones that I’m using are their standard size. They also make a DTM series that are even smaller.

I'm not talking so much about disassembly on pulling pins, because I agree with you there, but actually hooking and unhooking the connectors when they get dust and dirt in them. Of course like I said, I deal with mainly ag equipment. So they are used on tractors, combines, planters, in the dust, get behind the locks and moisture, and have to dig it out just to unhook. Of course on a vehicle, especially a car such as yours, you SHOULD never have that problem.

 

[Rktpwrd]

I'm not talking so much about disassembly on pulling pins, because I agree with you there, but actually hooking and unhooking the connectors when they get dust and dirt in them. Of course like I said, I deal with mainly ag equipment. So they are used on tractors, combines, planters, in the dust, get behind the locks and moisture, and have to dig it out just to unhook. Of course on a vehicle, especially a car such as yours, you SHOULD never have that problem.

Yeah, I can totally see that. When I was using them building natural gas compressors, everything was new so I never really had to deal with that issue. The connectors are designed and made with such close tolerances that it likely wouldn’t take much dirt and crud to make them tough to get apart.