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Ask HN: What's possible to make cables durable on ends where the connector is?

• ohiovr 4y ago
  If the cable was a uniform material of something like loop woven kevlar and molded into a refractory composite of carbon, it should be tough enough.
• compressedgas 4y ago
  Make the cable gradually less flexible as they get to the connector.
  • eimrine 4y ago
    Any options to do this except of doing it gradually thicker?
  • duped 4y ago
    This can make the wire at the connection point brittle and prone to more failure. Classic reason why you don't tin wires too deep.
• h2odragon 4y ago
  Rather good guide: https://standards.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/standards/NASA/A/4/nasa-std-87394a_w_change_4_0.pdf https://standards.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/standards/NAS...
  • toast0 4y ago
    It's important to read the NASA guide understanding the context. If your costs to dispatch a service technician are significantly less than theirs, and your environmental requirements are significantly less than theirs, it may be acceptable to build connectors in a less expensive manner and occasionally dispatch a technician to change the cable. But where it's not significantly more expensive to build it to NASA spec, go for it.
    • h2odragon 4y ago
      great point. I've never had need to attempt their standards but I've still learned useful things there, even for bodge level work. often i recall those lessons in the form of "if I had remembered to do that thing I read about, I wouldn't have this problem now. and the fire would've been smaller"