I had a corroded contact on an MES 30. The wire is copper, and the contact appears to be iron. I could not find any brass or copper crimp connectors, so I decided to solder it. I found a soldering iron at Wal-Mart for $5.
Here is the before pic:
I cleaned up the contact with emery paper:
Here are the supplies:
I realized that it would be much easier to solder by laying the smoker down on its belly so that I had a horizontal surface for the solder to puddle on. The heat-shrink tape is on the wire ready to slide down, However after ten minutes with a blow-dryer it did not really shrink much so I called it good.
Back in action!
Here is the before pic:
I cleaned up the contact with emery paper:
Here are the supplies:
I realized that it would be much easier to solder by laying the smoker down on its belly so that I had a horizontal surface for the solder to puddle on. The heat-shrink tape is on the wire ready to slide down, However after ten minutes with a blow-dryer it did not really shrink much so I called it good.
Back in action!
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