Soldering bananas onto solid core speaker cable...

[JTC]

Can anyone advise on the technique? I am a soldering novice, but have broken a banana plug (it was a cheap one) and would like to solder a new set on.

Cable is DNM reson and I will have to solder it myself on account of it being embedded into the kitchen wall...

 

[Patrick Dixon]

Make sure you use yellow solder ;-)

 

[topa]

Drill a hole in a piece of wood to hold the banana. First heat up the wire and cover it with lead. Then heat up the banana sticking in that piece of wood, and add a little lead to it as well. Then whilst still heating up the banana, stick in the wire and wait a second till it all connects. Voila.

 

[JTC]

Doesn't sound too bad, thanks. What bananas do people recommend (for sound quality, ruggedness and also ease of soldering)?

 

[B-Diddy]

Deltron

 

[Stevie A]

Probably the easiest ones to solder are the milty big bucket screw/solder plugs.

Trim the lead to suit,screw into plug which holds the cable for ease of use and fill with solder.

Try to use an iron large/hot enough for the job it makes a lot of difference and makes the job easier.

 

[Paul R]

RS 444-179 good basic connectors.

Depends a bit on what your speakers or amp are fitted with.

Paul

 

[JTC]

Speakers are AVI Pro Nine+. Amp end is fine (Linn Classik, with its funny connectors). If I'm successful with this I may have a go at reterminating from spades to bananas in my main system (I HATE spade connectors!)

 

[martin clark]

Try to use an iron large/hot enough for the job

Stevies right, to the extent it's actually worth buying a 'big' iron to make this job easy. 40W (or more) is about right.

 

[Fatmarley]

A big tip on the end of your iron also helps. Oh, and a damp sponge too.

 

[john & Jake]

Drill a hole in a piece of wood to hold the banana. First heat up the wire and cover it with lead. Then heat up the banana sticking in that piece of wood, and add a little lead to it as well. Then whilst still heating up the banana, stick in the wire and wait a second till it all connects. Voila.

Hi,
Is this a recipe for fritters

 

[coredump]

With DNM cables I always used the Reson plugs; I don't believe they sound any better than other decent plugs, but they reasonably priced IMHO and you just cannot go wrong.

ATM I use these, which seem to work very well, too.

Best,
Oliver