Bonding Strip Attachments

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Scoid

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Does anyone have a clever way to attach wires to the bronze bonding strips that are laid into the fiberglass throughout the boat?

I'd prefer not to just screw into them as this would puncture the fiberglass underneath.
 
Greetings,
Mr. S. I'm not quite sure what you're asking but I'm assuming your bonding strip runs the length of your boat so there must be attachment points (nuts and bolts?) along the strip or at the ends. You may have to run lengthy wires from what you want to bond to these accessible attachment points.
Is there any way to lift a small section of the strip and solder an attachment lug to it?
 
Screwing to it isn’t a good idea, it will not last. You want to through bolt to it. If that isn’t possible then maybe daisy chain from another device that is bonded. But if you do that make sure the new connector is on the same bolt that the first bonding wire is attached to. You don’t want to come in on one bolt and go out on a different bolt. That way you are adding that device into the circuit and we are looking for less than 1 ohm resistance anywhere in the bonding system.
 
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