Nothing wrong with solder joints - even on mains wiring IMHO (and permitted by the wiring regs). The main difficulty is that of deployment in situ, and the time taken to make them properly, which tends to push many practitioners toward other solutions like crimps.
Given the intensity of the search that seems like a good reason.
Bill
I love soldering. I solder anything and everything.
Bill
Have you ever read Cosmopolitan?
I'm surprised that nobody seems to have mentioned it (maybe I missed that post now the thread is so long), but the chocbox is the nearest thing you can get easily:
(if that doesn't work, search chocbox on screwfix or google) Not really recommending them though: I bought one once and could never open the bugger to use it without wrecking it....
An inline heatshrunk soldered joint would be neater. You can get for £1 o r so a pill reminder thing, it has 7 strips of 4 little cubes, 1" all round or so. Just the thing for little tiny bits like this. I'd probably twist & solder the wires inside.
NT
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