[byroncobra]

Interesting the soldering issue.....I was looking for info on the net and a US site written by an aircraft auto elect specifically noted no solder if crimped properly.
He noted the likes of Boeing, Cessna etc not having used solder on their aircraft for 20 years. I spose these guys do use a flash commercial crimper but he personally still only crimps.

On the Jaycar tool, they list only one for uninsulated terminals and its the same as the Kingchrome one I bought (for 3 times the price of theirs) the die wants to just flatten the lugs not neatly curl them and crimp. I'd use insulated terminals, only VDO supplied nice plug connectors and the female terminals for each gauge so I'd like to persevere with these.

Greg