No.
Nope
@JUGE_FREDD had one? Maybe?
Two strong NOs, am I overlooking something?
Another strong no here, the wires are held in by the connector. They would only come out with a VERY firm tug.
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Maybe this connector is out of spec then, or the wires are on the smaller side, cuz these were loose as hell and slipped right out with the slightest bump.
Maybe I worry about nothing too much
Are you putting it together correctly? Wire goes through the holes, exposed wire bends over the inner part of the connector, outer part slips over and holds everything in place?
I’m sure there are pictures someone can share.
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I’ve put a small amount of hot glue around where the wires enter the lego piece. Not sure it really did much but it didn’t seem to hurt anything.
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Yeah, just like that. I figure the budget light came with fairly small gauge wire
/shrug
fourth no
I asked the same thing a while ago. There is not really any good place to do it. It is a little fiddly. After you play with it a little it works. I left my copper long and hanging out of the clip until it was all together and then clipped the tails
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i also did this and has been fine for ~4 years
you can pull the connector out by the wire if you want, it’s not a concern
impressive
shartq: how do you get the wire from one hole to the other when it is inside a tube?
Blow dental floss through with compressed air. Tie to the wires and pull them through. Really only necessary on the fork.
And I’ve done it with thread and a shop vac (in case you don’t have compressed air handy).
It depends on the tube; when I’m wiring a frame, I take the BB out and feed wires in from the other ends of the offending tubes (usually they’ll just slither slowly down to the BB, but if they don’t I take a piece of hooked piano wire and snag the tangle), and when I’m wiring a fork I feed a bunch of thread in the dropout end, then use a chunk of frayed brake cable to twirl it up like spaghetti, pull it through, then tie the wire to the string and use it to lead it up to the crown.
I’ve done the vacuum thing as well, and that works, but I’ve already got the frayed brake cable on hand (somewhere in the horrible chaos that is my bike mess/workshop.)
sometimes when the moment is right, a j-bend spoke can also be a tool useful to get in and hook on to the thread/wire whatever
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