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Yeah, I knew how to solder but stared at them for a while at Home Depot...

thinking "This would be so much easier" and hoping they weren't some sort of cheap ass way of doing things.

it's been years now and they work fine.

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Posted: 04/21/2018 at 10:10AM

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