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Subject: [motm] Re: PATCH CABLES - You want them?

From: elhardt@...
Date: 2003-01-22

osthelder writes:
>>I don't wish to annoy, but a good heat-shrink sleeve material and
decent plug/cable connection will not have problems such as you
describe. I have been using 3-M heat-shrink tubing, Switchcraft 280
plugs, and Belden 9778 cable for years with no difficulties in
applications far more destructive than modular synthesis.<<

That's probably because the heat-shrink sleeves over my plugs come to an end
right at the end of the plug shell, so there isn't anything for it to really
grip onto. Different manufacturers do things in different ways.

-Elhardt