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I've not come across that type of connector before, but I usually just solder everything electrical on the layout - a reel of solder lasts for years and making individual joints will cost next to nothing. Scotchlocks and other systems begin to eat up the budget if you use a lot of them surely? I appreciate that soldering is a skill but it's worth learning as you can use it for so many tasks, and it's very easy to do. The one set of joints I didn't solder were those between the two modules of my layout - these use standard terminal strips as a safety measure, as with these if a cable gets yanked in transit it should just pull out without taking half the layout wiring with it. Short linking cables with plugs and sockets join the two terminal strips together and allow quick disassembly/reassembly. <br /> <br />Speaking of house electrics, when we moved in we fixed a downright dangerous bodge made by the previous owner who thought that a ballpoint pen top was a perfectly acceptable way of joining wires carrying 230V mains... (there's a proper junction box in its place now!)
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