[Ron Ramirez]

> With regard to the rivoted on insulator there is also the option of drilling out the Bakelite and tapping the hole for a fine threaded, flat head machine screw, if the rivot had not come out.

That's a good idea, Arran. I will try that the next time I have to work on one of these.

Saturday's Progress, Part 2: Let's Make a New Speaker Cable, cont.

So now we need to get the connectors out of the plug.

You should do one wire at a time so you do not get confused on which wire goes where.

I found that using a tiny screwdriver to push the connector out of the plug worked fairly well.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_024.jpg]

Be careful doing this. There is a chance that you could break off the solder tab of the connector.

Once pushed free of the plug, things look like this:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_023.jpg]

Now pull connector and the piece of old wire out of the plug.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_025.jpg]

Unsolder the old wire from the connector and you are left with this:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_026.jpg]

The solder tab needs to be at a 90 degree angle to the connector; it gets bent when you push the connector out of the plug with your tiny screwdriver.

Take a pair of needle nose pliers and carefully bend the tab back to a 90 degree angle so it looks like this:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...-5_027.jpg]

more to come...