Alittle banana hack for those who want much tougher cables... You can buy banana plugs that have solder wells on the back, or you can still use the setscrew type shown in the video. Cut and strip your wires as usual Twist them very tightly and solder tin them, using a bit of excess solder. Now dip the tinned end of the wire into some resin based solder flux Insert them into the solder well or the set screw well. For set screws, tighten as normal. Now take a relatively hot soldering iron and heat the wire well to reflow the solder you put on the wire. This will effectively solder the wire to the plug for a much stronger connection.
@@consumertechcheck Best way to know ... try it! The set screw ends like in the video will take more heat to reflow the solder, but it should work just fine. Simple test... take out the set screws and see if the solder bonds... Of course if you buy the ones with solder wells, they're made for this, so it will be a fair bit easier to do. (These ones are also a bit cheaper!) I've got a pair of 16ga 10 foot speaker leads I made this way and 15 years (approx) later, still perfect. One caveat to save people a lot of fuss and trouble ... *this absolutely does not work with copper clad aluminum (CCA) wire.* ... the aluminum melts at about the same temperature as the solder and it will instantly oxidize and reject the solder. But then, nobody in their right mind is going to use CCA wire for speakers.
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Alittle banana hack for those who want much tougher cables...
You can buy banana plugs that have solder wells on the back, or you can still use the setscrew type shown in the video.
Cut and strip your wires as usual
Twist them very tightly and solder tin them, using a bit of excess solder.
Now dip the tinned end of the wire into some resin based solder flux
Insert them into the solder well or the set screw well.
For set screws, tighten as normal.
Now take a relatively hot soldering iron and heat the wire well to reflow the solder you put on the wire.
This will effectively solder the wire to the plug for a much stronger connection.
Great tip..!
Are you proposing that would work with these same ends I used in this video?
@@consumertechcheck
Best way to know ... try it!
The set screw ends like in the video will take more heat to reflow the solder, but it should work just fine. Simple test... take out the set screws and see if the solder bonds...
Of course if you buy the ones with solder wells, they're made for this, so it will be a fair bit easier to do. (These ones are also a bit cheaper!)
I've got a pair of 16ga 10 foot speaker leads I made this way and 15 years (approx) later, still perfect.
One caveat to save people a lot of fuss and trouble ... *this absolutely does not work with copper clad aluminum (CCA) wire.* ... the aluminum melts at about the same temperature as the solder and it will instantly oxidize and reject the solder. But then, nobody in their right mind is going to use CCA wire for speakers.