Any ideas for a better way to attach my electrical connections

[passingtime38]

My plates are an 1/8 inch thick and very close together.  i'm placing them - ++ - - ++ -  I have 5 leads.  On the outside of the neg, between the pos, between the neg, between the pos, outside the neg.  I'm using nylon bolts and stainless washers to press the leads together.  I don't like the way I'm doing it very much, but the distance between the plates is basically one stainless washer.  Does anyone know of a good way to connect the leads while keeping the spacing very close.  Thanks  R.

[Athopi]

It sounds ok. If the bolts are off-set, why not use ss bolts? You're not using ss washers between + and -, right? Post a pic!

[passingtime38]

no + and +   I can post a pic tomorrow it is out in the shop.  Stainless steel bolt would cause a short across positive and negative.  If the nylon bolt loosened, then the connection would slip and that could be dangerous.   

[passingtime38]

  that's a better smiley

[Athopi]

That's why I said the bolts should be off-set.

Depending on your bolt pattern (where the bolt holes are located on the plate), you could rotate all of the + plates 90 degrees, use ss bolts connecting all plates of each polarity, (passing over plates of the opposite polarity) and a nylon bolt (two would hold better) near the center of all plates.

Or, you could do like here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNL0alFIliQ  and cut off opposite ears.

Let us know when you post the pics!