Thanks for your reply. Adding a copper extension was a consideration, but
there is too little space available.

I'll just use a cable with a real tinned copper shield.

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Cheers,
WB
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"Gerard Bok" wrote in message
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On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 05:29:48 -0500, "Wild_Bill"
wrote:

I was fixing a mutilated cable for a friend's portable music/video player
with a weird connector at the device end.

After preparing the end with shrink tubing and splaying the conductors so
they would be able to connect to the ridiculously small conacts inside the
connector, I began to tin the leads with solder, but the shield braid wire
would not tin.

Wrap & twist some bare copper wire around the braid :-)


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met vriendelijke groet,
Gerard Bok