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Heating Cable Repair
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Hot-hot joint
: Ensure that the brazed junction is the
same diameter as the heating cable conductor. If
not, the brazed junction may be a cold joint and it
will be necessary to remake it.
Hot-cold joint
: Ensure that the brazed junction has
formed a
cone
from the large to small diameter
conductor. If not, the brazed junction may be a cold
joint and it will be necessary to remake it.
Note: If insufficient heat is applied to
the conductors, the brazed junction may be
surrounded by the ball of silver solder but not
actually bonded and an open circuit failure will
occur.
Figure 26: Hot-cold junction
Remove all trace of flux from the conductors with
the emery cloth. Straighten the conductors with
needle nose pliers such that the conductors will be
as far from the inside wall of the joint as possible.
Emery
cloth
Figure 27: Clean conductors