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What is a mil-spec harness?
Mil-spec bulkhead connectors use a circular design with barrel crimps and high-quality gold terminals to ensure perfect connectivity. These connectors use threaded-on back shells to serve as an anchor for a rubber-sealed boot that acts as a barrier for the elements.
Should you use solder in a motorsport harness?
Tip #1: Try to avoid soldering, use splices! The solder joint itself is strong, but the wire will break directly after the joint when vibration is applied on the wire.
What are military Specs?
MIL-SPEC is short for Military Specifications. The U. S. military uses standards. Sometimes they conform to say, an ANSI standard, and sometimes the standard is unique to the military – or a particular branch of the military. Some Mil-Specs are free and others have to be purchased (or gotten through Interlibrary Loan).
What are military specs?
Is crimping better than solder?
Crimping offers stronger, more reliable connections than soldering. Soldering uses heated metal to join the cable to the connector. Over time, this filler metal will degrade, which may cause the connection to fail. Most electricians will agree that crimping is also easier than soldering.
How much do wire harness assemblers make?
The average Wire Harness Assembler salary is $29,623 per year, or $14.24 per hour, in the United States. People on the lower end of that spectrum, the bottom 10% to be exact, make roughly $24,000 a year, while the top 10% makes $36,000.
Where can I find my military Specs?
Military Standards The Defense Technical Information Center is the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information and is an excellent complement or back-up to ASSIST tools.
How do you get a MIL-SPEC?
To find out the specific Mil-Specs, you can visit the Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System or what we like to call the ASSIST. This is a website that you can access to have over 100,000 digital documents all around the various Mil-Specs.
What type of wiring harnesses do you design?
We can design mil spec wiring harnesses, including MIL-38999 connectors, that allow for blind mating, hermetic seals, corrosion protection, quick disconnects and are be suitable for SWAMP conditions. We also provide custom braiding, potting and overmolding, including overmolded circular connectors, for military wiring harnesses.
Are your wire harnesses made in the USA?
Our military wire harnesses can be designed and manufactured entirely in the USA, and we’re proud to assist every branch of the U.S. military – Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard – in the development and manufacture of the wire harnesses they require.
Why choose Cypress industries for military wire harnesses?
We furnish every client with this level of comprehensive focus, so it’s no surprise that Cypress Industries is an ideal supplier for U.S. military wire harnesses.