Don Foreman wrote:



Why would you want gold? You are aware that gold has higher
resistivity than copper, right?

C'mon Don give him some slack...He said he was a non-metalworker.

I betcha he jut got misled because those who flog high end audio stuff
brag about gold plated connectors and he just thought it was because
gold had lower resistivity, when it's really put there for corrosion
resistance.


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Make the electrical connection with silver-tin solder, conductive
epoxy or whatever, provide mechanical strength by other means: a
flange with screws into the body or whatever.



Yep, you can easily guess what I'd do....

Use conductive epoxy to glue in a stranded wire pigtail and get some
mechanical bend relief, and then solder a binding post to the free end
of that wire. Further messing around mechanically or thermally with
what's left of that post may lead to the internal disaster he was
worried about.

Who sits around staring at the backside of their speakers anyway? Once
again I say, "Pretty is as pretty does."G

Jeff

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Jeffry Wisnia

(W1BSV + Brass Rat '57 EE)

"Truth exists; only falsehood has to be invented."