But its not logic or evidence based.
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[N]ot many more than one and its not clear that they failed due to age rather than service conditions.
AND I would maintain that diligent service inspections should pick it up long before the cable fails.
Would that there were a lot (lot) more like you, OA, involved in GA in Australia.
But we need to focus on the key issue here: It’s the corrosion cracking of the SS terminations, which cracking is difficult to detect before failure. But note I said “difficult”, not “impossible” (at least not in the USA, where the laws of physics are different from those in Australia).