Alright, why not just check the darn things prior to sailing each time? If you wrap them with tape then you hide the crap you are supposed to be checking. Just check each time, you use wire then you start cutting stuff (what is this about something used in the manufacturing process that inhibits coagulation? if so, figure out what it is and you could make millions in the pharmaceutical market). sorry, just check them like you check to make sure the plugs are in, etc.

all deployment and no sailing makes PTP pissed!