Connector type?

[davidk]

What do you call this type of connector?

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[jeff-register]

That is a knife blade connector & it should have a insulator big enough to  slide over the exposed metal like a small rubber hose. I forget where I saw this type of disconnect, I think maybe marine,  old V.W. beetle or Motorcycles. What are you using it for?

[davidk]

jeff-register wrote:

That is a knife blade connector & it should have a insulator big enough to  slide over the exposed metal like a small rubber hose. I forget where I saw this type of disconnect, I think maybe marine,  old V.W. beetle or Motorcycles. What are you using it for?

Thanks Jeff.  I tried all kinds of ways to find the name.  I have a mag plate for a Mark 25 that has two wires with this type of connector for a kill switch.

[Bob Wight]

Some of the 50’s OMC classics also use a similar knife blade connector for the kill switch leads.

Bob

1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
1954 Johnson CD-11
1955 Johnson QD-16
1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
1957 Evinrude 3022
1958 Johnson QD-19
1958 Johnson FD-12
1959 Johnson QD-20

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[kerry]

1960’s OMC electric shift gearcase leads.   https://www.marineengine.com/newparts/part_details.php?pnum=OMC0379645

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[jeff-register]

Kerry,

You are right! I remember my OMC Dual Deluxe 17′ tri-hull boat had the same knife connectors in the electric shift gearcases, We were into them many times replacing the electric clutches & the wrapping springs. It was a 1962 model with two 88hp 2stroke V-4 I-O drives & E shift. They had magnetic emergy that would pull the clutches on tapered hubs to engauge. No klunk when shifting.

[Monte NZ]

I could be wrong, but I think those connectors were called “Packard connectors”

[billw]

I always knew them as knife connectors. They may also have a brand name; I don’t know. Kind of like tissues and Kleenex, maybe.

In the OMC world, I have used the connectors shown in your picture, by taking the plastic insulation off of them. That allows them to fit inside OMC’s rubber insulating sleeves.

Long live American manufacturing!

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