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I visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle and saw a vintage radio rack restoration.
The wiring harness was completely hand-soldered with cloth insulation, no modern connectors in sight. Has anyone here ever had to work on something that old, and what was the biggest headache?
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felix1552d ago
My granddad's 1962 Ford pickup had a wiring harness like that, all cloth wrapped and brittle as old newspaper. Trying to trace a short in that mess was a weekend killer... every wire looked the same faded color. The solder joints would just crumble if you breathed on them wrong. I kinda miss how simple it was, but man I don't miss the smell of burning cloth insulation.
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