ORIGINAL: Rodney
The nice thing about the connections at the receiver, they get unplugged and re inserted ever so often which tends to correct the minor corrosion problems before they become major ones. On my smaller planes I am not so particular, on the ones that cost a lot, I take much more care so none of my quarter scale jobs have extensions.
Oh oh, now there's two of you! Soldering is absolutly no problem for me and I would do it if I felt it was necessary!
Are you guys doing this unplugging and replugging at the receiver as a periodic maintenance proceedure? I put the radio in the airplane and it doesn't get touched again until I either crash or pull the radio out to do something else with. I look the radio and everything over very regularly; but, do not disconnect any of the wiring.
You guys are absolutly insistant that your way of doing things is the correct way to do them, arn't you. I am a maintenance freak also. I take care of my planes and check them over far better then most people here at R/CU, before I fly and at regular maintenance checks. Had I ever found what you feel to be a problem with my extensions, I would be taking action to remedy! The problem you feel so strongly about has not happened to me since I started using extensions and Y-connectors in the early 1980s. Obviously, you feel this can be problem and I can understand and respect you opinion! However, I am just not seeing this as being an issue!