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Apr 30, 2010 at 7:44 AM Post #5,672 of 16,306
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Excellent, I like it & looks great
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Thanks. A speck of colour is often nice.

RCA cable, 1.35m, quick and dirty. The old one suddenly got too short.


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Apr 30, 2010 at 1:01 PM Post #5,673 of 16,306
my 1st time to build a DIY IC. this is too addictive!!! ;D

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Apr 30, 2010 at 7:10 PM Post #5,674 of 16,306
Very colourful Heishiro. I go for a simpler look.........

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May 1, 2010 at 11:03 AM Post #5,676 of 16,306
Thanks, it replaces the black and silver headphone cable for my AKGs. This IC is a tiny bit more colourful. It has Van Damme cable and Neutrik Rean phonos. The heat shrink was a pain. My wife's hairdryer worked on other heat shrink, but not this. So I used the soldering iron, but it wrinkled. What did I do wrong?

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May 1, 2010 at 12:35 PM Post #5,679 of 16,306
My wife is obsessive about drying her hair and the the hairdryer is capable of heating the cable till it is too hot to touch, it must be the heatshrink. I practiced with the soldering iron on a piece of heatshrink on its own and got it to a perfectly round smaller shape. A heat gun would be better, but I am worried about damaging the cable.
 
May 1, 2010 at 1:24 PM Post #5,682 of 16,306
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I use a cigarette lighter exclusively.
The trick is to hold the heatshrink to the side or even underneath the flame.


doesn't it get over heated/burned or discolor? I've had that happen with use a lighter. If I use RatShack tubing... it gets VERY stiff from a lighter, but with the heat gun (still gets stiff as that stuff is gawbidge) it stays a bit more flexible.
 
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