Does anyone know where I can get some wire taps?

Thanks

John

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93 Teal Cobra #4656
2000 Silver Lightning #4524

 

Have you ever been in an auto parts store?
Or an electrical supply house?
or a hardware store? and you will need some pliers. and an idea of how big the wire is that you want to tap. (you aren't talking about phones are you. ) Do you know what they look like?

Or if you want to do it the old fashioned way: you need a knife, some wire, and some black tape.

 

Mil-spec grade?

http://terminaltown.com/Pages/page90.html

 

ask G. Gordon Liddy, he knows all about wire tapping... heh heh...

any decent auto parts store, Radio Shack (a Tandy company), etc.

 

Wow, Dreamin, those are cooler then the ones I got from RadioShack.

Daniel

 

I am trying to run RCA cables off of the stock head unit with out cutting any factory wires. I have ordered both the wiring harness that connects to the head unit and the stock wiring harness but wanted to have a back up plan incase these items did not work.



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93 Teal Cobra #4656
2000 Silver Lightning #4524

 

Normally a wire tap is made to tap into a single conductor. RCA plugs are normally at least 2 conductor and usually with an outer grount sheath and a center conductor inside an insulation sheath. And of course some are just two wires soldered to the outer and inner contacts. You could make a set that would siamese off but they would be not so pretty.

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Red 99

 

I am not going to tap an RCA wire into the stock wire. I have line level converts. It is a little box that has inputs for speaker wires coming out of the head unit and coverts them into RCA compatable cables.

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93 Teal Cobra #4656
2000 Silver Lightning #4524

 

FWIW, I would recommend soldering instead of wire taps. A few years installing car stereo/alarms have taught me to avoid them like the palgue. I've seen them cut through wires (not just the insulation, but the actual wires itself), corrosions at the contacts, cause intermitten connections, etc.

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Francis
'00 Lightning, S/C 5.4
'93 Mustang GT, N/A 5.7
'00 T-Maxx, N/A 0.15