How-To: Cloth covered banana cables

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2010/09/14 @ 6:56 am
Category Electronics

Here’s a clever way to make your homemade cables look classy and expensive, and all it takes is a shoelace. Instructables user Aud1073cH shows us how to make these cloth covered banana cables.

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5 Responses to How-To: Cloth covered banana cables

s0crates82 on September 14th, 2010 at 11:49 am said:

i see what you’re saying, and it’s a grand idea, but instructables is GARBAGE.

it’s like they designed the site specifically to be hard to navigate, hard on the eyes, and a general pain in the ass.

And yeah, I’d say this to the face of anyone that works at instructables.

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- snailwatcher on September 14th, 2010 at 11:57 am said:
  
  I think that says more about you than about Instructables……
  
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Chris W on September 14th, 2010 at 12:06 pm said:

I’m with s0crates82 on this. Earlier today I was thinking what a pain it was, and then they had a talking ad!
I’ve decided to stop using their site unless they show me how to achieve cold fusion, win the lottery, or find the path to inner peace.

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Chris W on September 14th, 2010 at 12:18 pm said:

I don’t care about the cloth covering, but the exposed screw on those is very bad. I like the stacking type banana plugs. They have enough recess on the metal parts to protect me.

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- Aud1073cH on September 14th, 2010 at 6:07 pm said:
  
  I prefer the stacking type too. I was the first to comment on my own instructable and covered this issue. I had non-stacking because they were cheap, and multiples are easy to make.
  
  I also covered the issue of the exposed screw. I wanted it exposed for my low-voltage synthesizer and circuit bending cables. You may want to cover your screw with heat shrink when using high voltage.
  
  Check out more comments on the instructables page.
  
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