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Old 01-11-2007, 07:38 PM   #1961 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MASantos View Post
The strain relief must always be installed to ensure correct clamping of the cable inside the connector. What I do in some cables is to cut the portion of the spring that is outside the connector. I posted some pics of my cables a few pages before.
normally don't use the springs, since alot of the time the wires wont fit through it as well, but i always solder all my wires, and the heatshrink over the connector kinda works similarly.
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Old 01-11-2007, 07:44 PM   #1962 (permalink)
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What about the Cardas connectors that don't have any type of strain relief? Any suggestions on how to make sure the cables don't break off?

I'm thinking making it a reasonably tight fit using heatshrink on the inside then hot glue.
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Old 01-11-2007, 08:55 PM   #1963 (permalink)
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Gepco Triaxial 70 OHM cables and the best Monster connectors i can find (they went for 16 dollars each but i got them for free!)



I made the Hospital grade socket connector thing and the CAT5 cables (with old Monster conenctors i got for free). Terrymx made the mini-mini and the mini-rca.
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Took a trip to Mendelsons today. Monster cable, 10 cents a foot.

Not to mention a nice little interconnect for my upcoming amp.

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Old 01-12-2007, 04:51 AM   #1965 (permalink)
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made a 75ohm little extension for my er4p>s. Used 1/8w 75ohm resistors, and they fit nicely inside the stereo plug casing



It's 24AWG silver-coated copper wire, and i did have a screwup on that heatshrink on the jack side :-\ but ill put up with it, makes it more flexible i guess

*Kind of wish i had a fatty all silver mini stereo jack instead of that one with the black plastic cover, anyone know of any i can get?

***here's an rca > mini connector to plug into my switch. Colors clash a bit, but you cant see the rca connectors behind my cd player
That's 18-gauge silver-coated copper wire...yep, i fit 4 18AWG wires into the canare F12 plug, i love these things!

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Cable end jack:
This is where I got some of these:

(looks the same as the one in the picture)

here's my thread that has some info
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Cable end jack:
This is where I got some of these:

(looks the same as the one in the picture)

here's my thread that has some info
http://www.sjmediasystems.com/tn-mfs.html

found them there for under 2 bucks a pop, thanks for the link to your thread, i put the model number in froogle

***nvm, shipping was 13 bucks for 4 of them!
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Old 01-12-2007, 06:59 PM   #1968 (permalink)
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markertek.com actually does have the TN-MFS, just search for it in part number, then press on the rca link, then go down and look at the options to add to the cart
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Power Cord interconnector

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guys..i have a question...

the Canare L-4E6S. it has 4 conductors... lets just say i was to take out 3 out of the 4 conductors and cut all 3 conductors to about 50cm (half a metre) each.

how long would it roughly be if i were to braid the 3 cables together?

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