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Watt/Puppy owners...help busted binding post...

I have Wilson Watt/Puppy 6.0's. This is the 2nd time I have twisted off a speaker cable binding post. Both times on the bass cabinet 1st the right now left. I've changed cables on speakers for years and years and never had this happen.

My dealer should take care of me (umm again). But I'll be with out them for a few weeks as they are shipped to Utah from Texas.

Anyone ever have this happen to them? Anyone ever try and replace it yourself? I can solder and I think I'm fairly mechanically inclined...but Wilson says it's a complicated procedure.

I'll gladly take some advice and comments here.

BTW, I am not buying different speaker...unless it's a MAXX 2. I love my Wilsons.

Thanks!!
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nsgarch
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George, I don't care how strong your fingers are, if you can do damage with fingers alone, then I think Wilson should consider using something better. I hear the new Eichmann's are excellent, and of course there's always the Cardas.
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jfrech OP
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The deal is the wilson posts are a 1/4' post drilled out for banana's. Add their over sized nut and you can easily over torque the bolt trying to a firm grip on the cable. I think they either drill the banana to deep or need to go to a 5/16 bolt size. Like Cardas and some others...

Seems like this is more than just me being careless...Thanks for the feedback!
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nsgarch
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Jfrech, I think this is an ongoing problem w/ the Wilsons.
I almost had the same problem w/ my Puppies and I've read at least one other post here on AgoN from someone else who did it twice!

Short of installing better binding posts, I think a perfectly acceptable alternative would be to attach a pair of WBT locking banana plugs to the spade connectors of your spkr cables and then lock the bananas into the binding posts.

The connection is just as good that way (maybe better since the bananas have more contact area) and you can tighten the spades onto the bananas with as much force as necessary.

Just a thought.

Neil

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