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I have male fittings that have a screw like thing in the center that 
screws into the wires center this holds pretty tight and seem to be pretty 
commonly avaliable.

Bob



On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, david raistrick wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 16:33:55 -0500
> From: david raistrick <keen at icantclick.org>
> To: Robert Mann <robtmann7 at gmail.com>
> Cc: VW type 2 late aircooled <type2 at type2.com>
> Subject: Re: [T2] (no subject)
> 
>>        It may sound far out, but I wonder whether a marginal connection
>> where the HT comes out of the coil can decrease power, while not abolishing
>> sparks altogether as in this case it later did.
>
> ....yep.  that will happen.
>
> You should be able to spread the copper male part of that a bit wider
> (it should have a gap for such purposes) to re-tension it.  that's
> where the holding tension should be, not the boot around the nose of
> the coil.  (though a loose boot can cause other issues, like
> dirt/oil/water/corrosion....)
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