[sdiy] source for brass or other exotic banana jacks (non-nickel)

[Anthony Bisset]

I've worked with a lot of JCD panels from the 80's which use brass banana
jacks and it's been fine.  I like corrosion, and plan on investigating how
to integrate it into a modular synth someday...



On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, cheater cheater wrote:

> Brass are going to be pretty bad! You don't want brass anywhere near
> your conductor chain.
> If you're concerned about the look, try gold-plated ones..
>
> D.
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Bisset <abisset at dspaudio.com> wrote:
> > Hey All
> >
> > I'm in the process of planing some spalted maple for the surface of a
> > modular interface and plastic banana jacks are compromising the look.
> > I've found plenty of nickel plated banana jacks across the interweb but
> > brass or boron would look a lot better.  The little bit of JCD that I
> > have uses round brass Jacks, these would be ideal, but I have no idea
> > where to get them...
> >
> > I'm interested in vintage/unusual plastic jacks as well, so If anyone can
> > help me out or point to sources that'd be great!
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Anthony
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