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A NEW type of wipe or fillet joint is described by J. T. Lowe (Bell Lab. Rec., 20, No. 11, July 1942) which makes it possible to meet the essential requirements for a wiped joint using far less solder without the necessity for a new wiping technique. Essentially, the new method consists of carefully beating in the cable sleeve ends to the proper shape to facilitate formation of a satisfactory fillet of solder and to obviate rounding out the sleeve ends with solder. Tests of strength, resistance to fatigue and gas-tightness show the new joints to be fully as good as the old. The wiping technique is somewhat simpler and is well liked by jointers. The adoption of the new technique reduces the amount of tin the Bell System would ordinarily need for wiping solders by more than 60 per cent.
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Tin Economy in Cable Jointing. Nature 150, 458–459 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150458d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150458d0