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Hopefully you hadn't assembled the other end of the cable yet. Although sliding the plug shell from the other side of a 25 foot cable might take longer than desoldering and resoldering.
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What ! You mean a "Bris"? .... I'm no Jewish !!you should go for a 'plug snipping'
Anyway what's left still works !!!!Juan Manuel FaheyComment
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Well, I know if I've done a perfect soldering job, than I better check to see if the plug is on the cable!Originally posted by dai h. View Postyeah, really sucks to discover esp. after you were just patting yourself on the back for making a nice joint.
Good job self. Uh...what is that!
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
- Yogi BerraComment
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Boy, I'm glad it's not just me. It's even MORE of a pain when it's an XLR!Comment
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Used to do it all the time. Now I only do it SOME of the time.
It's funny how your mind instantly turns to finding possible alternatives to unsloldering for a brief moment even though you know there's no way around it.
Chuck"Take two placebos, works twice as well." Enzo
"Now get off my lawn with your silicooties and boom-chucka speakers and computers masquerading as amplifiers" Justin Thomas
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You can't just expect consent." HelmholtzComment
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THAT made me laugh! Earlier today I soldered a piezo saddle transducer to a pre-amp board in an Ovation......without checking to see if the lead was long enough. I'm stretching it over and over...hoping that it will magically become longer. It didn't.Originally posted by Chuck H View PostComment
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I had to hold my sides over THAT one and while I'm writing this I'm still chuckling...Originally posted by Sweetfinger View PostComment
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haha, no a 'snipping' as in a vasectomy. You know, "53 kids".Originally posted by J M Fahey View PostComment
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Nah. Do what I do. Use heat shrink, that sucker never breaks and never comes off. When it needs emptying, just undo the staples at the end.Comment
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I did one years ago when I used to do installs. Was running 3 mic drops across the dance floor from the far wall, 20' high false ceiling, intended to run from the mixer side to the mic side, somehow did it backwards. I had the housings on the wires in one wall and the soldered xlr ends on the other.Comment
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Ouch.Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.Comment
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I usually only do that when I'm soldering a 20+ pin Mil. Amp connector, usually find it after I've got five or ten connections done, Argh!!Comment
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A variation on the theme that is maybe even more maddening for me: finding the old backshell still on the cable after doing a perfect job installing the new connector. Aargh!!
Most likely to happen when someone is watching in my own experience...Comment
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OK, here I come. Today I was at a neigbors house (old lady) to take off a ceiling lighting (such a thing with a ceiling fan). The light was off and I started to unscrew the screws of the lamp. Loosened the cables out of the luster terminal and started to get the lamp holder of the ceiling. I had to slip the wires through this thing and ZZZZZZZAAAAPPPP there I got it. Just for half a second but it reminded me of the words I heard on this forum. Never trust anything. CHECK if there's no voltage.
The lamp has a switch with a cord hanging down from the ceiling to switch not only the fan, but also the light. It was under voltage all the time; stupid me, especially because I had a voltage detector screwdriver right in my hand.Comment
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regarding electrocution, these are great to have in the old tool box, bought one while wiring a 10kw heater unit:
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