Great link from hew.
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Check these out. $18 for 10 pieces including shipping from HK. Well made, looks great and works great. |
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I did as Jgiacalo described. Chopped the cable off leaving about 1/2", stripped the insulation and twisted the wires together. I didn't bother covering them with tape, I just twisted the exposed wires into a little pigtail real tight to the cap. You can do the same for non-shorting plugs, but in that case it is important that the wires are NOT shorted, and that they be covered so they don't short. |
Making your own isn't all that hard as Seandtaylor99 described. Or, you can just twist the wires together and cover them with electrical tape. Not as durable as soldering but wokks just fine and lots cheaper that 'custom' off-the-shelf plugs. shorting plugs reduce noise you didn't even know was there. |
If you want to short unused RCA inputs then what I've done is to take the cheap disposable interconnects that come with most components, chop them in half and then short the conductors (with solder) and put some shrink tube on the exposed end. Presto: two sets of shorting plugs from each interconnect that would otherwise be disconnected. It's not hard to solder them because you are actually TRYING to short them. It would be much trickier to solder the conductors without accidentally shorting them ! |