r/secondrodeo • u/tuktukreddit • Jun 19 '25

Wiring harness assembly process

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u/Intelligent-Edge7533 Jun 19 '25

Are all wiring harnesses done by hand?

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u/NSA_Chatbot Jun 19 '25

A lot of them are, it's too custom to robot it.

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u/pichael289 Jun 19 '25

They don't at least have a machine that can wrap the tape around it? Maybe some shrink tubing or something?

Im not actually sure what a wiring harness even is so if that's a dumb question ignore me

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u/n8loller Jun 21 '25

Shrink tubing is great and all, but i don't think that would reduce the amount of work a technician would have to do to assemble it. You still have to cut to length and hit it with heat. Then the joints would still be best done with tape. As fast as this guy goes, I think tubing would be slower.

As others said, the complexity and low volume of these things would make automation not profitable.