Greg:
You can sneak a pair of needle nose pliers in the ends of the connectors and tighten them up by squeezing the rounded parts down towards the flat side. Or you can take the nut off of the top, remove the double spade terminal, put ring terminals on the wires and reinstall the nut.
Tim, Thats what I figgered. I would like to soldier the new connections as opposed to crimping them on. My Wife has a really handy little cordless soldiering tool that would be perfect for that application. That and a little shrink tube and another bug bites the dust! GregH