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In Reply to: RE: KLE Innovation RCA sockets? posted by Jonesy on August 17, 2023 at 20:15:11
Thank you Jonsey for your reply (sorry me being a little late).
Now I remember, that if the fit was too tight heating would help and not do the opposite.
I am not sure what you mean about, that the plugs have stretched?
As I said in my post,I do not have these problems, when I connect to the standard RCA sockets. The standard sockets measures 8,3mm and some other cheap ones I have 8,4mm.
But the question is, why on earth do KLEI produce sockets (8,2mm), that don't even fit their own product?
mojul
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The inner wall diameter on my KLEI plugs measure 7.8mm so it is a very tight fit when I put it on any of my RCA sockets. My sockets all measure 8.2mm.
I'm thinking the inner diameter of your plugs plastic claw grips have stretched (or opened up) from use enough that it is a bit too loose on your new sockets though still OK on your slightly larger old ones.
(Most of my metal RCA plugs are the locking type, but the ones that are not I sometimes snug the metal claw grips a bit with my fingers or gently with pliers for a tighter fit.)
If the plastics claws have opened up, I suppose a hair dryer might still work by heating them up and squeezing the plastic claw grips back in towards the center. Then it needs to be held like that until it cools off. For expanding they had to be held in position overnight on sockets.
That won't work here as you need to make the plugs smaller in diameter. Something like a hole drilled into a piece of wood or anything similar that you could push the plug to keep it from expanding again while it hardens overnight.
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
Thank you so much for your excellent idea about how to tighten the KLEI plugs :-) I will try it to see if it works.
I just love the Audio asylum, with always helpful guys here, and I learn so much from you. Without the Audio Asylum my system wouldn't sound so wonderful as it does today.
mojul
Before trying to heat the plug, I used a plastic strip to make a tighter fit, but that didn't help. Then I measured the resistance and it was the positive (bullet), that had a poor connection, not the negative (shield).
Then I unscrewed the socket to see, what was inside the socket, but then I saw a little shiny spot between the threads, and thought maybe if I pressed it a little down, it would maybe work.
And YES that did work, now the connection is perfect, when I move the plug a little from side to side and up and down, the Ohm meter do not show any variations.
I have plugged and unplugged several times and the connection is now rock stable :-)
I am very happy!
mojul
Great pic and glad a socket tweak solved the issue!
Jonesy
"I know just enough to get into trouble. But not enough to get out of it."
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