I built this cable assembly several months back using TA5 mini 5-pins at the fanouts. One of those connections broke loose at the fanout after the cable got yanked on and the connector pulled out of its shell. I was just using layers of heat shrink to keep it all together since the two cables wouldn't allow me to use the included chuck and strain relief.
So I re-terminated that end, and put some JB-Weld in the back. Let's see it try to pull out now!
JB Weld will affix anything
Except a split engine block
My supervisors learned that the hard way last week XD
@GlytchMeister
Someone seriously tried that???
I have used it in my car, but just to attach plastic adapter rings for aftermarket LED headlight bulbs.
It was just a crack in an oil channel at first. The bean counters didn’t want to spend the money on materials, labor, and downtime to do it right. It was a “cost saving measure.” Didn’t even clean the oil off first, just roughly slathered it on to plug the leak.
I would have taken it out of the test cell, stripped it, drilled the ends of the crack, then done some good old fashioned metal stitching, followed by brazing the outside for good measure.
Damnfool bean counters.
I’ve used JB weld for a lot
(I once had to take the bits of a bumper surrounding the fog lights and JB Welded them into matching holes I cut into a newer model bumper from a junkyard… I also de-humpty-dumptied an ECM casing and an air filter housing on the same car with JB Weld)
but if I’m gonna be fucking with an industrial turbodiesel, I’m putting on my goddamn ironworker hat. Cast steel does not take kindly to shenanigans and it does not forgive bullshit.
But yeah after they slapped some goo on the crack and called it a day, they let it cure and then had us run it.
It ran. For about five minutes.
And then it fucking split in half.
Pretty sure the only thing that kept the engine block from straight up popping open like a damn Easter egg was all the bits inside, the wiring harness, and gravity.
They could have gotten at least a solid few years out of it if they’d done the repair properly.
@GeorgeG
This cable will mostly be used for live concert recordings of a capella choral music. I think it will remain within temperature parameters.
@voltronic JB-Weld, JC-Weld, whatever it takes!!! 😉