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On battery disconnects, I didn't like the design of any of the offerings, so I used a red-knob assembly, bored out the solid horizontal wire-connect area for a hole big & deep enough to inset the bare wires from the battery cable, and soldered the two together with a propane torch. That gave a large enough electrical connection area to allow my gear-drive starter to pull full starting current, and still disconnect the battery when the car is resting. Hand-tight on the knob is sufficient, too.

We all may be having trouble passing sufficient current through the gold-ish plating or whatever the far-east makers use to make the assemblies look pretty. Drilling a new hole exposes clean metal for the solder.

9/22/1712:53 PM

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