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Have you ever skinned a speaker cable?

I'm thinking about removing the outer cover from some speaker cable
and using just the inside wire.

The cable is just too unbendable as-is and I think I have enough to cut in half and double-up (make 10 gauge into 5 gauge).

Anyone try this before?
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sonic_genius
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Skinned a few cats in my day :), lol. I have used cable slitters to do this job. Have fun!

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/cable-slitter
rlwainwright
1,904 posts
 
Why on earth do you need 5 ga. cables? Do you have a 5 mile run to your speakers?

-RW-
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almarg
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As a point of information, two 10 gauge wires in parallel are equivalent in terms of resistance to 7 gauge, not 5 gauge.

I believe that for any gauge a factor of two change in resistance (which would occur if two identical wires were paralleled) is the equivalent of a difference of three gauge sizes, to a very close approximation.

Regards,
-- Al
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