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Bottlehead Kits => Legacy Kit Products => Reduction => Topic started by: RGartner on September 02, 2014, 07:27:24 AM

Title: Missing part replacement!
Post by: RGartner on September 02, 2014, 07:27:24 AM

Hi, I received the reduction kit and found the 2 #6 solder tabs missing.

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s91/sh/e960785e-d567-4a9e-a17b-5fbb06639299/4cca8c811c8e0ef6b9b4ffa4ddd42d0b


Instead of waiting probably a week to get them can I just use something like these (remove the insulator and solder) without any audio degradation?:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s91/sh/90eed1bd-756e-4123-9a2e-95e659ca3983/37e57a2c7248273e2f51cf29a4d40a07


Thanks for any information.

-Richard Gartner

Title: Re: Missing part replacement!
Post by: Grainger49 on September 02, 2014, 09:41:10 AM

The lugs you linked are oversized.  Try going to an Ace Hardware and show them what you have and they might have a replacement.

Bottlehead is good about sending parts out quickly.  Call today and it should be to you in about 3 days.  They send them first class USPS.

Title: Re: Missing part replacement!
Post by: RGartner on September 02, 2014, 11:15:50 AM

Thanks Grainger49,

I didnt mean the picture to be to scale. Think Ill ping bottlehead though as you say and get the replacements that way. Thanks!

Title: Re: Missing part replacement!
Post by: Grainger49 on September 02, 2014, 02:44:23 PM

The link is for terminals for 1/0 wire.  That is probably larger than the wire coming into your house.  You will be wiring the kit with something like 22 AWG (American Wire Gauge). 

Title: Re: Missing part replacement!
Post by: Paul Birkeland on September 02, 2014, 05:55:50 PM

Buried deeply inside random drawers at Home Depot, you can actually find an acceptable lug for that purpose at the correct size. 

We can also mail you a pair.