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    Another job I did, was to fit the ferrules and run the ground wire.
    This was fun.

    I tried to solder the wire to the bottom of the ferrule, but it didn't work. The pressure of pushing the ferrule in the body was breaking the soldering.

    Then I decided to twist the wire around the ferrule, and push it in
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    This almost worked, but it was too hard to push the ferrule down ground with the wire twisted like that around the ferrule.

    What worked at the end, I forgot to take a photo but it's a solution similar to the one pictured above.
    I made a sort of little spring with the exposed wire twisting it around with small pliers. Put the ground wire/spring in the slot, and pushed the ferrule in.
    I measured with a multimeter and it was fine. I proceeded like that for all 4x ferrules, checking with a multimeter, it worked!
    Last edited by FaustoB; 18-10-2022 at 08:28 PM.

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