(I paid 4 bucks a piece for those darn plugs...stupid Radio Shack)
It works perfectly so far! It's great to have a short cable around.
An update: make sure you keep your wires seperated from electrical contact with one another within the jack!
Today I took my amp and MD player to the game (I play in the Marching Band) and to my horror, my cable that I constructed a while back didn't work in the left channel! I was a little faulty when I first made it, but jiggling one of the ends fixed it.
Well this particulat end was kind of a struggle for me. I ended up soldering the ground wire twice because the first time it refused to mkae contact, so the CAT5 cable's blue casing kind of melted where I had the clips on the ground part of the plug clipped to the cable. Well it turns out that some part of this clip was making contact with the left channel, grounding it and obviously giving me nothing. I had to unclip the clip part, just wrap a big piece of electrical tape around the whole junk of blue casing and WHAM! fixed! I also put new tape in between the ground and left and right channels, just in case.
In conclusion, make sure you keep these suckers seperated, and tape well! Now no amount of jiggling makes the cable stop working, to my pleasure.
Happy DIY'ing! I like this cable very much, it works perfectly.
half the cat 5 cables i made ended up chopped up and in the bin. seems the solid core doesn't like to be thrown around the way i throw it around, static applications only from now on!!
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2.5' RCA CABLES
Sleeve: 14 ga. Teflon
Conductor: 24 ga. Pure Silver .9999
Config: TriBraid (one empty)
Termination: Eichmann Bullet Plugs
Approximate Materials Cost: $60/pr.
I made these to look similar to my Bogdan Silver Princesses
In conclusion, make sure you keep these suckers seperated, and tape well! Now no amount of jiggling makes the cable stop working, to my pleasure.
I always use epoxy. Filling in epoxy all over inside the plug helps. The connection will not get loosened and the resistance against any mechanical shocks is much better. This prevents any oxidation as well.
Of course you can't fix it after that. You really need to do it right once.
Very nice work on those rca cables highflyin9! I was wondering where do you buy your Eichmann bullets. Here in Sweden they cost about 65 bucks for two pairs, which I think is quite a lot. So it’s probably worth importing.
Hey nissenos, I got my most recent batch of them from HeadFier Jboele, but I believe he has sold all of them already. You may want to try MoonAudio, they should be ~$35 USD for a set of 4. Just a word of warning, if you are new to cablemaking the Eichmanns can be somewhat difficult to work with so here are some reminders:
1. They melt easily so you need to act quickly when soldering so the pins don't come out of place.
2. Build up layers of heatshrink underneath the RCA so the collarscrew has something to hold onto
3. The last layer of heatshrink that goes over the plug (the size is 1/4 i believe) has to come from the back of the plug, it won't slip over the plug from the front because of the sizing. Take this into account before soldering the second plug.
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I always use epoxy. Filling in epoxy all over inside the plug helps. The connection will not get loosened and the resistance against any mechanical shocks is much better. This prevents any oxidation as well.
Of course you can't fix it after that. You really need to do it right once.
Wow...you know what? I thought about doing that. Now I might just do it. It would be secure as HECK. Thanks for the tip.
Testing RG-179 mini coax for interconnect. I braided the cable with 4x RG-179. The RG-179 is mini coax for high fequency signal normally use in telecom industry. The conductor is silver plated cooper. Looks like the silver layer is quite thick, I hardly see the cooper part. I think the insulator (jacket) is either PTFE of PVC, and I found to be very good, can stand the heat of soldering iron very well, didn't melt of change form.
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