[BC] Soldering D-sub Pins

[Gary Glaenzer]

wasn't the crimp connection developed during WW-2 to cut down the required soldering in
military aircraft systems ?


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>
> Well...."the rest of the story...." It used to be that every electrical
> connection in aircraft was REQUIRED to be soldered. As aircraft
> aged, the soldered connections failed and circuits opened up [2].
>
> In the meantime AMP [1] (the inventor of the cold-welded crimp joint)
> made and continually improved crimped connections. They became
> so reliable that sometime in the seventies, their reliability outstripped
> soldered connections. Nowadays, soldered connections are NOT
> ALLOWED in aircraft, a complete turnabout.