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 Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 8:05 pm Post subject: K Type Thermocouple Wire Striping |
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Hi All,
How does one (me) strip K Type Thermocouple Wires.
The wire I bought from eBay Aircraft Supply has a metal shield and two wires inside that appear to be covered with some kind of a fabric type insulator.
The metal shield can be stripped back with a pick, bandaids, and some bad words. The two inner wires insulation do not strip back with a mechanical wire stripper and if I use a razor blade the fabric insulation will simply unravel like a sweater thread.
There has got to be a better way?!?!?
Thanks,
Bill Hunter On Apr 4, 2017 8:55 PM, "Jeff Point" <jpoint(at)wi.rr.com (jpoint(at)wi.rr.com)> wrote: | Quote: |
I recently purchased the MGL 18mm spark plug CHT probes from Aircraft Spruce. The photo on both their website and MGL's shows a copper ring soldered to a K-type thermocouple wire, a pretty standard setup. What they sent me is pictured below. Since the bare wire ends connect directly to the RDAC brain box, I deduced that the other end- a 1/4 PIDG fast-on, crimped to the thermocouple wires- must just attach to the copper ring. The tab end of the copper ring is exactly 1/4 inch, so this makes sense.
This seems like a pretty cheeseball setup. From what I know of K-type thermocouples (mostly from reading the 'Connection) that wires must be silver soldered to the probe and to each other. Or, am I mistaken and is this a reasonable setup?
I am also reaching out to MGL about this, but I thought I'd ping this group for your thoughts as well.
Thanks
Jeff Point
Milwaukee
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