During the reassembly of 2511 I did a lot of work with the OEM harness. Except for the plastic harness wrap, the wire insulation and the wire itself all appear to be still in excellent condition.
but in my experience none of the OEM wire was tinned copper, rather just multi stranded bare copper wire.
YMMV
Larry
@lf-tp2511 posted:During the reassembly of 2511 I did a lot of work with the OEM harness. Except for the plastic harness wrap, the wire insulation and the wire itself all appear to be still in excellent condition.
but in my experience none of the OEM wire was tinned copper, rather just multi stranded bare copper wire.
YMMV
Larry
I wouldn't know how to identify it personally. My information comes from my "Pantera electronics guy" Haas.
That's what he told me but in the couple of occassions where I repaired it, mine was a little funky looking copperish strands. Not pure copper as I expect.
In running it by my "guy" he said "that's because it's..."
See, here's the thing. In our education system, you can go all the way past a Ph.D without ever having touched the stuff. Just by having read texts on the subject and taken notes from the experts.
If anyone ever asked me to do a proof on say...gravity...I'd just have to throw a ball up and time it's fall. Other then that, I'd believe Newtons equations?
Did you ever go into a law office and see all the Law texts on the shelves? Do you think they even read everything in them?
I didn't, but maybe my guy did or actually designed and built something and it works? Hum. Very sophisticated?
When they say don't point the gun at yourself and pull the trigger, I take their word for it. No need to do the actual analysis.
I always thought the tin was in the copper. Like aluminized exhausts where the aluminum is in the steel?
What I would add is that on the aluminized exhaust systems that I have used and installed, there was no apparent exterior difference in appearance to non-aluminized if layed side by side.
The last one I've done was about ten years ago. I have not done one recently.
That issue got so infectious that the "factory rep" for Walker had to be brought in. What he said is not something that I made up.
He said, "the aluminum is in the metal". Believe it or not.
As far as the Pantera wiring goes, I was told that it is Marine wiring. I'm not a metallurgist and I'm not the one that made that determination.
