My thoughts.
I would prefer the heatshrink to be inside the barrel.
If I wanted, I could add my own heatshrink on the outside. In fact
I am already doing this on some cables. I take a piece of half inch
diameter colored 3M heatshrink and place it on the barrel and blast
it with a heat gun. I do not place it over the entire barrel and
cable, I only put it on the barrel. I use it for coloring, I do not
put it forward to interfere with unscrewing the barrel if I need
to.
Adding external heatshrink to already built cables is really easy,
however it will require a heat gun.
Andy
--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "J. Larry Hendry" <jlarryh@i...> wrote:
> Name removed to protect the identity of the dissented.
> Comments from those planning to buy?
> LH
>
>
>
> ---- original note-----
> Hi Larry,
> the only request that I would have is the shrink be on the OUTSIDE
of the
> barrel. I have a bunch of cables that I made back in 92 for my Moog
using
> Belden, Switchcraft, and the shrink on the outside, when patching
alot, and
> grabbing the plug by the barrel and the shrink all at once, there
is NO
> pull on the internal soldering joints, it comes out as one unit...
and the
> barrels tend to not come "un-screwed" ever... plus for me the
color-coding
> goes right up to the input nut of the jack on the module itself...
REAL easy
> to follow your patches at a quick glance... for those of us anal
enough to
> color coordinate patches by certain flows... audio, CV, gate,
> processing...sequencers... voice... you get the idea...
>
> These are just MY opinions, your mileage may vary. any one have
> thoughts on this?