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You just need to be careful. Ive used the heat gun for literally hundreds of applications and never had a probelm with it affecting conductors.
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Here are pics of another 3.5mm to stereo RCA cable. This one features Cardas 300B cable, WBT NextGen RCA's, and the ubiquitous Canare F-12. The NextGen RCA's are a dream to solder because they can be disassembled giving access to the individual pins. The Cardas cable's jacket is grey and the Techflex braiding is white.
CSO how did you arrange the 300B wire to conform to a mini-RCA? I bought enough of it for a headphone cable but found that not only was the jacket too thick for cable hanging from you head, but I didn't feel comfortable with only the little mini wires (28-30 gauge?) running to the ground. I was going to split the shield in half and put some tubing over top of it but I decided they would be better off as RCA cables using one mini and one larger wire for signal and the same for ground.
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How did you arrange the 300B wire to conform to a mini-RCA?
Background: the Cardas 300B cable has four conductors wrapped in a metallic shield. There are two 22 ga and two 28 ga conductors. In my cable, I used the two 22 ga for the left and right positive leads and the two 28 ga for the left and right negative leads. I kept the shield intact throughout the length of the cable, and split the shield strands in half down the "Y." The shield and two 28 ga conductors are all soldered to the negative terminal of the 3.5mm plug. The strands of the shield are cut short of the RCA connector and make no electrical connection at the RCA end. Using the two 28 ga conductors for the negative leads should be fine. Virtually all equipment that I know of has a common ground. Therefore, the neutral reference voltage is carried by the two negative 28 ga conductors in parallel--two 28 ga conductors is probably equal to a single 22 ga conductor. My few grievances with the Cardas cable are the 28 ga conductors are difficult to strip--I just melted it with the soldering iron. Plus the wires are protected by enamel paint. The enamel must be burned/metled off with the soldering iron too. You'll see it bubble off when it's hot enough. A solder pot would be best, but I don't have one.
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