> It won't be fun taking it off for removal Hopefully it gets built and stays built The thing about salt is that it's so invasive. Moisture on its own is fairly easy to keep out, although it's probably impractical to avoid humidity. This is an internal fitting in an underwater camera housing so its working life will be in salt-laden water or air. The person who soldered it up before me just used heat- shrink and exposed metal areas have suffered the most, particularly corrosion creeping up under the wire's sheathing > Good luck in your project! Hmm, well I was rather hoping skill might come into it somewhere ;-) -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.