07-20-2016, 10:40 PM
Your radio deserves better than spliced speaker wires! Order three colors of 20 ga. stranded cloth covered wire and replace the old wire completely.
Actually, the new wires can be installed in the plug without drilling out the rivets. Strip the wires about an inch and a half. Solder only the very end of each wire, say about 1/8 inch, just enough to keep the strands together. The rest of the stripped sections will be unsoldered and flexible. After the old wires have been removed and the pins cleaned of the old solder, you should be able to thread the new wires through the back of the plug and work them into the pins. when the wire starts to come through the other end of the pins, grab it with a pair of pliers and pull it the rest of the way through. It will take some patience but, it can be done.
Here is one I did a couple of weeks ago.
[Image: http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae335...7_0709.jpg]
Steve
Actually, the new wires can be installed in the plug without drilling out the rivets. Strip the wires about an inch and a half. Solder only the very end of each wire, say about 1/8 inch, just enough to keep the strands together. The rest of the stripped sections will be unsoldered and flexible. After the old wires have been removed and the pins cleaned of the old solder, you should be able to thread the new wires through the back of the plug and work them into the pins. when the wire starts to come through the other end of the pins, grab it with a pair of pliers and pull it the rest of the way through. It will take some patience but, it can be done.
Here is one I did a couple of weeks ago.
[Image: http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae335...7_0709.jpg]
Steve
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