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Small, small spade terminal connectors

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Small, small spade terminal connectors
Posted by bruce22 on Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:13 AM

Insulated or not, I need to locate these that can accommodate a 2-56 m/screw as well as 24g and finer wire. Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:25 AM

Digi-Key has these in stock:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/60445-2/A29915CT-ND/294229

eBay has more than 1000 listings including some pretty small stuff.

Dave

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:09 PM

The spade connectors for a 2-56 screw are almost standard.  You should be able to get them from any good automotive supply store.  As for the small wire size, they do come in different sizes, usually the smallest is for AWG 22.  BUT, if you either double up by folding over the small wire a few times, OR, add anothe piece of stranded wire in the connector along with the AWG 24, they will work OK.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by zstripe on Friday, April 18, 2014 8:03 AM

Bruce22,

 
Frank
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Posted by BroadwayLion on Friday, April 18, 2014 9:49 AM

LIONS do not lake anything spayed!

LION solders wires, him has far too many coneections to make to use screws and spades.

ROAR

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Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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