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Each wire is 12awg each...

So with two going into one spade, it will be about 6awg and it is barely going to fit and still may have to make it fit.

I was going to use heat shrink over the spade where the wire enters and on the other side to make it close to air tight as possible. I hear what you are saying and will keep an eye out on this. That's why I will have the wire a little longer just in case it does happen I can just cut off the contaminated part/s and redo in a different way.

I have some AudioQuest Midnight speaker cable I had to re-crimp when I change out two broken spades (thin as hell for that size solid core wire). This was done about 20 years ago and I still have never seen any contamination on the crimping I did and it wasn't as tight as I would have like it to be. Also I never heard any difference but not saying it didn't happen I just never noticed it, and I had a very revealing system then. The Crimping machine at my job at the time couldn't take the size of the new spades so I could do a professional type crimp.

BTW, I will soon be given a little update on those Douglas Digital cables you referred to me. Very nice but still need about another 20-30 hours before I can give any type of feedback.

Thanks for the info and advice.




Edits: 01/27/21

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