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RE: Anti Cable and Maggie's

Frank,

If you have short runs say under 8ft, then try some magwire from Ratshack for $6. Wire the mmgs with the green spool, using sandpaper to remove the enamel.

This is a cheap and hard to beat way to wire up your mags.

A simple recipe is to get some cotton string at the supermarket (they use this to tie up poultry). Use the cotton string and starting with the 2 wires on opposite sides of the cotton and cross them by making an "x" going in circles around the cotton. This is a blatant rip off of an Alan Wright ic recipe where he uses teflon tubing, but I like the cotton string better as it is easy to find, cheap and easier to work with. Cotton seems to also help with vibration.

Here is the pict using the red wire, but use the green or even the yellow if you are scared.




Though you can probably see from the pict below, I am using this same recipe from my external crossovers to my mmg drivers. This was supposed to be a short term stop gap measure until I built some "proper" jumpers, but it sounded good enough and I never got around to it, and well I will be going active soon and no need for the jumpers:





And dont freak out about the tiny gauge of the wire. Look in the 2nd pict. See the gold wire coming in from the top? That is the actual maggie driver wire, which is about the same size as the green wire in the ratshack pack.

Try it, you might like it and if you dont you are out less than $10 and some time. Though I bet you might just find that this really sings on the mags.



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