[ARC5] vintage headphone cords?

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

 The old cords had whipped fine tinned wire around the bared tinsel ends & then soldered that into the old pin-type connections. I assume they tinned the whipped ends first.


 Wayne
WB4OGM

 

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From: Bart Lee <kv6lee at gmail.com>
To: hwhall <hwhall at compuserve.com>
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Sent: Fri, Aug 26, 2016 10:24 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] vintage headphone cords?



I have seen sleeves that go over the old cords.  But where?


As you probably know, soldering the tinsel wire is hard to do. We have had some success by doing what the manufacturers may have done. Coat maybe 1/8 inch of the end of the tinsel wire with flux. Into the female end of the desired connection, pool molten low-temp solder. Stick the wire end in. It will (one hope) cool and set around the tinsel wire afixing it with no burning of the interior cotton.


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On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM,  <hwhall at compuserve.com> wrote:

Is there someplace that makes the old cloth-covered tinsel-wire vintage headphone cords? The kind that used to be found on Brandes, Trimm, etc. from the 1920s or 1930s or so? Google hasn't been my friend. I have some 1920s era sets whose cords are pretty far gone.



Wayne
WB4OGM



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