Ancor Marine Grade Products UVB, Standard -- 14", 25 Pack, Black

Hi, I'm Mark Call from Boat US Magazine and welcome to the workshop today i'm going to show you how to make perfect electrical connections we don't need a lot of tools i've got a pair of combination strippers crimpers here these are the cheap kind if you're going to do much more than a few joints here and there it's a good idea to invest in a pair of ratcheting crimpers makes it better join and actually it's easier to use a pair of wire cutters in case I need to cut some wire I've got a little blowtorch here and I'll show you how that we use that in a second and then obviously we've got the cable itself so I've got the cable here this is a 16 gauge cable it's worth mentioning that cable as the number gets larger the cable gets smaller so 0 gauge cable is so big and it's typically for the big fat connectors that you see to your battery this is 16 gauge obviously it's law smaller and then