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Originally Posted by MD1032
Figured I'd add my Cat5 cable here:  
(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.
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