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Soldering on to the tabs????

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In Reply to: RE: will try posted by Greg Ewing on April 01, 2008 at 15:28:59

Lantern,
You indicated you were going to solder on to them.
Over the years there has been discussion regarding the possible damage caused by the heat from an iron.
If you soldered, did you use a heat sink?

If you were going to use the holes in the tabs, what exactly were you going to use to "solidly" secure the wire to the surface of the tab?

Just curious
Thanks

Follow Ups:

no tabs were harmed in the making of this tweak.. - Green Lantern 19:11:24 04/01/08 (4)
Relax folks; Maggie's doing fine...
Ok here's what I did; I removed the spade(s) which reveal the tabs. The tabs had holes dead center in them. I ran about two strands of wire through the hole and wrapped the remaining strands around em per each lead. I then soldered the the strands onto the tabs. I used a 45 watt iron and it worked like a charm.
'Tining' the solder tip with a bit of solder transfers heat a 100x's more efficient than a 'dry' tip; time enough to get the job done.
Those tabs although hardly audiophile grade, aren't so fragile they can't withstand a hot iron.
My iron posed no threat to those tabs (whatever cheap alloy they are).
Now I've heard of folks by-passing the TABS and going straight onto the leads of the drivers (Paco in tweaks comes to mind) which I assume are aluminum...something I'm not willing to do at this point.

"Live life as if you'll die tomorrow...
Learn life as if you'll live forever..." -Gandhi

Edits: 04/01/08
- RE: no tabs were harmed in the making of this tweak.. - Dawnrazor 10:18:38 04/02/08 (0)
  Now I've heard of folks by-passing the TABS and going straight onto the leads of the drivers (Paco in tweaks comes to mind) which I assume are aluminum...something I'm not willing to do at this point.
  
  I did that kind of. I just didn't solder. I took off the part that has the tabs and exposed the drivers. Took some binding posts and wrapped the driver leads around the bottom of the post (not the part where you would put spades in a tighten it down...lower than that). Then I carefully tightened the post to the maggie frame and that holds the drivers in place.
  
  Note, that the tweeter wires were a bit short to run them to the front like the bass wires are. That is why you don't see the bass wires in the photo. I had originally had them all in the front, but when I was moving and packing up the speakers I put the panels in the styrofoam and forgot that the side rails were removed. On speaker fell out of the styrofoam and the tweeter wires snapped at the post. So there was only enough wire to put them on the back. If anyone does this, do be careful with the tweeter wires they are fragile but I have had no problems once they are tightened down gently (besides my boneheaded packing mistake)
  
  It also sets the speaker up for bi-amping because I can run straight in to the driver right off the amps.
  
  Why have extra connections if they are not needed.
- Soldering Directly To The Wires - Peter Gunn 08:00:50 04/02/08 (0)
  I got talked into doing this way back, and it is the WORST piece of advice to come off of this board.
  
  Let me put it this way, I'd sooner go to my wife and say "Hey, your ass looks kind of fat in those jeans, are you putting weight on?" than try to solder directly to the voice coil wires again.
  
  BTW, if you do do it that way and actually don't ruin your speakers you'll find it doesn't sound any better that way anyway, IMHO refuting the claims that it does.
  
  'nuff said..... and good luck with the project.
  
  It's all about the music...
- it's not that tabs that were the concern - wazoo 19:23:49 04/01/08 (1)
  It's the QR runs, but Voldemort has assured us that there is nothing to fear. Being a chicken$#!t (and before the aforementioned reassuring info had been posted), I lifted the driver runs off the other side of those spades (as I'm sure others have). In my defense, it only took a few minutes.
  
  "Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny" FZ ♬
  - ok because - Green Lantern 21:56:06 04/01/08 (0)
    I've laid that iron on a helluva lot more things fragile than a push tab!
    Built two Bottlehead Foreplay pre-amps with it and some of those circuits are thinner than RCH's...! *
    
    "Live life as if you'll die tomorrow...
    Learn life as if you'll live forever..." -Gandhi
    
    Edits: 04/01/08

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