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new nakamichi bananas for my cables.. they hide the pant leg inside the banana cover a bit so you cant see the wire at all.. very secure with the double screws on the wire..
these bananas are also alot lighter in wieght than the mono ones..

whats this heat shrink you guys are talking about to help keep the sleeve inside the pants?

it makes a nice finish and helps tie down the tech flex.. you could tape it down under the pant as well.. my pants where 1mm to big
so the heat shrink hides that well.. its the black stuff at the end of the pant onto the tech flex nylon cover..

What size heat shrink tubing r u using?

That will depend on the gauge of your cable. I use 12 gauge cable with 1/2" shrink wrap.

i use 1/2 inch heat shrink 3 to 1 stuff..with adhesive..

Ok thanks the techflex can that be cut with a scissors?

yes, or a hot knife. You can also wrap electrical tape around the spot you want to cut as it helps with fraying.

I'm having difficulty getting the sleeve to slide over the cable. Any tricks to this? I dunno how some of you managed with a 50ft cable. I'm having trouble with just a 3ft one.

nevermind. it squishes like a slug haha

I assumed it was more like a Chinese finger trap...

i cut mine with scissors.. then i carefully burnt dont the ends to stop the fraying.. on the hot stove.. dont breath the gas...

cheers

there is clean cut techflex that can be cut with scissors, but the others really need a hot knife, to do it correct.

i cut the non-cleancut stuff with just scissors, and had no fraying what so-ever...but if i wasnt using the roll of TF for a while i did burn it quickly with a flame...to protect the end

I guarantee you it will fray while messing with it if not burned.

soo what is your guarantee...since i did not have any...??

I cut mine with scissors, and at the end I used shrink wrap. I didn't notice any fraying.

Did you get these from the ebay guy? I went to the Nakamichi website, and I got a warning about the website not being secured to make a payment. So, I ended up not ordering from the website. It appears that the ones that are being sold on ebay are cheaper and of the same quality.

I have some of the Nakamichi sawtooth plugs. Replaced them with the Sewell deadbolt plugs which I think are much quicker to install and better quality.
http://sewelldirect.com/Sewell-Deadbolt-Banana-Plugs-12-Pair.asp


The Nakamichi's are now installed on my dad's system.

Those deadbolt look pretty nice. Do the speaker wire pant leg fit into them like the Nakamichi?

yes they do. What guage wire are you using? I use Monoprice 12ga and it fits.

Using Mono 12 gauge CL2 wire. Excellent. Now, I'll have to convince my wife I really need some of these lol.

i bought mine on ebay using pay pal.. i got em in the mail too.. wonder how many orders get lost in the postmans pockets..

my nakamichi's wave flex bananas are a better set up imho.. better banana contact and the wire is more secure and better contact with the banana better all around..

cheers..

I just finished making my wires just waiting for banana plugs. Can you see the white wire through the tech flex or is it my imagination?

i could not see the white with the carbon and blue tech flex cover..

used 3/8 tf over cl2 12awg from mono...

cheers

I have some KnuKonceptz 12 gauge speaker wire pants along with monoprice 12 AWG speaker wire. To feed these through, do you need bare speaker wire or still encapsulated?

Just finished one of my cables

This was done with dark purple TechFlex and using this DIY plan for low-inductance cables

http://diyaudioprojects.com/Power/Low-Inductance-DIY-Speaker-Cables/

I'm running ESLs so will be interesting to see if it makes any kind of difference.

Let me know what you think!


Edited by BB1111 - 2/15/13 at 5:34pm

Exactly what I stated. The flex will fray if you mess with it long enough if, notice the if, it's not burnt. Clean doesn't do it quite as bad and sometimes not at all. The flex when not burnt will fray with higher percentage if messed with long enough while working on your cables.

I sense a bit of sarcasm but then again I have no experience of course with making cables so what do I know.

Good luck.

Haha yes I was just playing with you. I honestly didn't have any fraying. But it was very easy for me to fish the wire through the techflex. So not much handling wa done My longest wire was about 8 feet.

Guess I'm just a natural