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Well, it frayed at the ends a bit, but nothing too bad, it doesn't expand, and it's harder to bunch up to move out of the way. I think the main reason why I found it so hard, was trying to shove 1 meter of a copper braid through it. My dad had to help me on the first interconnect, and the second one took me 40-odd minutes by myself. I think I just ordered it one size too small, but if you press down on it now, you can definately feel that it's loose.
the easiest way to do that is inserting a single wire, cheap one.
THen you secure the end of that wire to the copper braid or whatever you want to put inside the nilon braid. Then simply pull gently all the way through.
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I was thinking of something along those lines, but I didn't have the necessary materials. I might stock up on some cheap mini StarQuad solely for doing that though, since it seems like that would work very effectively.
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Lessons learned:
-Nylon multifilament is hard to work with
-Copper braids are hard to work with
-Feeding a copper braid through nylon multifilment is excessively hard
-Silver is more malleable than I thought
-Feeding 1 meter of 23 AWG silver into a 22 AWG teflon tube by hand... is a dumb idea
-Neutrik ProFis are awesome
-Cardas solder is very easy to work with
Nice work hembergler! I pretty much agree with everything you said here. Nylon multifilament is a little more difficult that your standard techflex. Second time around it will be a lot easier for you though.
Something you can try with the copper braid is wrapping a piece of electrical tape around the end that you're feeding, you'll get a lot less resistance. 1 meter of a one gauge difference between conductor and tubing usually works out okay, you'll get a bit of resistance at the end but it's possible. You can always get the presleeved stuff but it's usually twice as expensive.
I agree the ProFi is a great connector. Very nice secure feel when you plug it in and you don't have to deal with any locking barrel nonsense Also great is Cardas solder. Note that Cardas just recently released a lead-free version due to the new regulations, which is slightly more $ than the regular, FWIW.
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I did that electrical tape trick, it helped, but it was still hard. The main problem was the copper wouldn't stay taught. My dad got it to work (with difficulty) pretty quickly, but by myself it was really hard.
As for the silver + teflon, for the 2nd cable I found four feet of 20 AWG teflon which went on marvelously. The 22 AWG teflon took me... oh... 90 minutes? It was really hard, especially since I was pretty tired when I worked on it, so my hands weren't too steady and I kinked up the silver far more than I would have wanted to.
I still might try some locking barrel RCAs, simply because I haven't had any experiance with them. They also might be nice for a new 0404 breakout cable, since there is a decent amount of stress on it, at least the way I have things set up. (although I have yet to think of a better solution)
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(bad photo so I resized to make it almost acceptable
This one is for my Emu 0404. I've decided I want the 2 inputs the stock breakout cable has rather than my own, so I made this 1/4th mono -> RCA. I was originally going to use GS6, but then I realized I save about 10 ft. by just using StarQuad, since it already has 4 conductors. I also got to work with the adhesive heatshrink, and attempted to pinch it. It didn't come out perfectly, but I think I got better on the second one.
I have made some other cables but this is my first attemt on recabling. I am really happy with the result.
As you see this time I did not use the green techflex.
But of course I used my own tag.
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I pretty much agree with everything you said here. Nylon multifilament is a little more difficult that your standard techflex. Second time around it will be a lot easier for you though. 
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