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Poor quality products are a problem but you would hope that would put sparks on their guard and focus their minds on making the best connection possible with the available materials. Back in the day, one of the main craft skills that was considered crucial for every electrician was how to make sound connections. From sweating on lugs to making tensile inline splices (and insulating them), it was one of the fundamentals of the job. Woe betide the lad whose instructor found he hadn't bent up the ends of his Britannia joint square before soldering! Granted, no-one really needs to know how to vulcanise a rubber joint or sweat a lead octopus any more but things have gone too far the other way - newbies waxing lyrical about torque gauges etc and bandying reg numbers about but given a screwdriver and a piece of choc block they can't get current to flow from one cable to another without catching fire. Poor show, I call it.
/rant.
/rant.
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