anyone use this distro block from knukonceptz?

[sumone 10+ year member]

BC-1428 Kompression Fuse Distribution Block:

how the hell do you get the 4ga wire in there and make it stay??? It doesn't use an allen socket (like the 2 8ga outputs) as I suspected. You can see the nut on the picture.

anyone wanna point me in the right direction of how to get the 4ga in there and make it stay?

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[Matador 10+ year member]

it's a nut, at the beginning, you put the wire thru, n tighten thru the nut if i remember correctly. i have the non fused one for my grounds, and i believe that's how it was.

but dont worry, i know it stays there pretty taught. it wont come out

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

ok, here's what I did:

1. took off the nut

2. put the 4ga wire through the nut

3. screwed the nut back on the block

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I can easily pull the wire and it comes out. There's not even the least bit of friction between the wire and nut. I'm using weldingsupply 4ga wire.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

Someone's gotta know how to do this? The thing is the nut doesn't become tight on the wire. Is it supposed to? It's like screwing the nut onto the block with a toothpick as the wire.

am I doing it right:

1. take the nut completely off the distro block

2. hold the nut in my hand

3. string the wire through the nut

4. then screw the nut back on the distro block?

ahhh!

 

[almo]

Try spreading some strands after putting the nut on the wire. spread out as much as you can just to fit in the block. Keep pressure forcing the wire in as you tighten the nut. Without seeing it for real, I'm guessing it's a lame type of compression fitting. If it is still loose, then the wire's dia. is too small. Welding cable may have a different insulation thickness.

good luck,

Almo

 

[Matador 10+ year member]

oh now i remember. thanks almo.

what you do sumone is strip the power wire, and if i remember correctly there nut has like a cylinder that the wire goes thru and that cylinder goes inside the opening. so, strip the wire long enough so that you pass the wire thru the cylinder and have a little come out of it so you can bend the wire back so it wraps the cylinder from outside. then insert the nut w the cylinder inside the hole, and start tightening and done.

hopefully you get my explanation. good luck

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

almo, your way worked, and it's tight so that the wire is not easily pulled out, but is it cool like that? I thought the wire would be at its greatest potential (not voltage-wise, but resistance-wise) with tightly-packed strands? I took out the multimeter and got a resistance measure fluxuating from 0.8 to 1.5ohm (30ft-long run of 4ga weldingsupply wire).

And basically, there's only one part-the nut. No cylinder or anything else to put the wire through...

I mean there's gotta be someone on here who's using this exact block after all the praise knukonceptz gets from this board...

 

[RJ Sclafani 10+ year member]

oh now i remember. thanks almo.
what you do sumone is strip the power wire, and if i remember correctly there nut has like a cylinder that the wire goes thru and that cylinder goes inside the opening. so, strip the wire long enough so that you pass the wire thru the cylinder and have a little come out of it so you can bend the wire back so it wraps the cylinder from outside. then insert the nut w the cylinder inside the hole, and start tightening and done.

hopefully you get my explanation. good luck

Thats the way I do it, works every time.

 

[sumone 10+ year member]

ok, officially, that is how it's supposed to work...

You have to remove the nut from the block, slide it over the cable. Then strip the jacket off the wire exposing the copper. Slide the nut just over the exposed copper and fold the copper over the "spacer". Once this is done, screw the nut back into place. This will Kompress the wire into the block.