For heat shrink you can try wirecare.com WireCare.com | Your Local Cable Management Superstore!
they also carry Techflex braided sleeving, I get all of my DIY cable coverings there.
Looking for pure copper or Cu/Au bananas
Hello friends,
Trying to order a new set of DIY speaker cables. I have most of the connectors but need to order two pairs to replace bad Furutech bananas.
The requirements:
- Solid copper or gold over copper. Absolutely NO brass core.
- Screw down wire connections. No soldering
- Either fully insulated or easy to insulate, so nothing with a metal housing.
- Less than $80
Suggestions?
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Erik, after my first time DIY IC cable build I'd agree that soldering (well) can be hard, but it IS definitely hard for KLEI RCAs. However the bananas are quite easy if you use the toothpick trick i was given. Just jam it inside the solder tube to hold the wires flush and secure while working. Pull out when set. I know you'd knock it out and Partsconnexion has them on sale. $99 now $74. Like others claim, they have a tapered tip but fully round shaft, and spring-like fit once in. They are very tight. |
Sir, who do you think I am?? 😤 😂 @akgwhiz the issue isn’t whether I have the kit, it’s whether I like soldering for speaker connections. No, I do not. Mechanical connections are better. This is why your house panel with 200 Amps doesn’t use any soldering at all, nor do any of the breaker connections. |
Should I? All kidding aside, I offered that as encouragement to "other folk" to not avoid solder. Your reason for the choice wasn't stated. I'm a rank beginner DIY unlike others here. Among the posters here, there are a handful I always read and learn from and you're among them. Thanks for the Sir reference though. Wait, doesn't that make me sound old? |
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