My Next Stupid Question

[lsiberian]

You should be fine. It requires math to give you the difference, but at that distance you will be golden unless you have some insanely high power needs.

While you may have insane needs as the Google search revealed. You never seemed the high power type.

 

[gmichael]

Just look at this sh!t ...

Good thing I had extras ...



I went looking for a clip from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where Redford gets to say "Keep thinking Butch, you're good at it."

You brute you!
How could you do that to those inocent connectors?

 

[Alex2507]

You brute you!
How could you do that to those innocent connectors?

They had it coming.
It wasn't my fault.
They were asking for it.
I never should have listened to Rick.

... and my old stand by ...

It wasn't me.

 

[gmichael]

They had it coming.
It wasn't my fault.
They were asking for it.
I never should have listened to Rick.
... and my old stand by ...

It wasn't me.

So it was all Rick's fault huh? That trouble maker!

 

[STRONGBADF1]

Just look at this sh!t ...

Good thing I had extras ...



I went looking for a clip from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid where Redford gets to say "Keep thinking Butch, you're good at it."

Applying some heat should help that out a bit. that or open them up with a file or dremmel.

Those spades might be made stiff for a reason. Soft copper spades deform when enough pressure is applied to them, and since you're a rocker I'm sure you're gonna go Neanderthal on 'em...

 

[Rickster71]

They had it coming.
It wasn't my fault.
They were asking for it.
I never should have listened to Rick.

... and my old stand by ...

It wasn't me.

I have to take the blame.
I've looked closer at the pictures, and I can see a casting line.
So they are brittle cast metal, that I told you to bend.
The one's I had were much thinner and not cast. Yours look like something from car audio; cool looking though, and nice job. Except for the breaking part...

I think Doug has a good idea with a round file or a Dremmel; but don't listen to me it was Doug's idea.

 

[STRONGBADF1]

I have to take the blame.
I've looked closer at the pictures, and I can see a casting line.
So they are brittle cast metal, that I told you to bend.
The one's I had were much thinner and not cast. Yours look like something from car audio; cool looking though, and nice job. Except for the breaking part...

I think Doug has a good idea with a round file or a Dremmel; but don't listen to me it was Doug's idea.

I just want him to get in trouble for filings and grinding dust on the dinning room table.

 

[gmichael]

If he heated them, would they bend easier?

 

[Alex2507]

These spades are just meant for the smaller old school binding posts like the ones on Walter's Carver amp.

Of course wider ones are available along with just about everything else you could want hardware wise over at PE but I was wanting to get through this without spending a hundred bucks. I have stuff laying around that I want to use up.

So ... here it is. They all Ohm out to zero. I'll solder the male blades to the threaded inserts after they are mounted in Mahogany ... after I cut the Mahogany. Don't anybody hold their breath though. This could take a while.

 

[Swerd]

These spades are just meant for the smaller old school binding posts like the ones on Walter's Carver amp.

The binding posts on older amps, like you showed, were made before the time when cables had to look manly to be taken seriously by audiophiles. If you load them up with large cables and heavy terminals, they can easily vibrate loose.

If you use those large spades, don't tighten the amp's terminals with a wrench or use those locking banana plugs. You can easily break off the amp's terminals .

Believe it or not the terminals that most resist vibrating loose are those cheap looking dual banana plugs. Before getting them, make certain the amp or speaker terminals are the right distance apart.

 

[Alex2507]

Believe it or not the terminals that most resist vibrating loose are those cheap looking dual banana plugs. Before getting them, make certain the amp or speaker terminals are the right distance apart.[/IMG]

I think I saw a number out there of 300mm and that's roughly 1-5/32" but there are better looking dual bananas than that Halloween looking thing you posted. I guess that would be okay if you had your eyes closed kind of like ... well, never mind that.

When I was using Walter's amp to drive a cheesy dual driver sub these spades worked great.

... but I get what you're saying about stuff breaking pretty easily.

For the piece of Mahogany that I want to fasten to the wall and then fasten a wall mount to I am going to use that Golden Ratio thing to size it. I'm coming up with 9-1/4 wide by 14-5/8 tall. I didn't do the fancy math. I just scaled it on paper. I thought I'd mention that in case one of you guys had nothing better to do at work than check my work for me.