- 1). Power off the audio equipment.
- 2). Disconnect the speaker wire from the speaker and from the audio equipment. Make a note of which conductor was in the positive jack and which was in the negative jack on each end.
- 3). Cut the speaker wire at the point of damage, and trim off any damaged wire so that the remaining wire has all of the insulation intact.
- 4). Split the two conductors apart for about an inch by grasping each conductor and pulling them apart at the end. Use the wire cutter to carefully cut a small notch between the conductors, if necessary, to get started.
- 5). Strip about a half inch of insulation from each of the conductors.
- 6). Grasp an individual wire in one hand by the insulation, while gently twisting the bare conductor strands between the thumb and forefinger of the other hand, and form the strands into a single braided lead. This is not necessary on solid conductors but only on stranded conductors made up of many small copper wires running inside the same insulation. Repeat for all four conductors.
- 7). Grasp a conductor leading to the audio equipment in one hand between the thumb and forefinger so that the insulation sticks up above the thumb about a quarter inch and the bare copper conductor is exposed. Place the matching conductor leading to the speaker next to it, aligning them both side by side so that the insulation is touching and at the same height. Trim one of the copper conductors if it is longer than the other.
- 8). Twist the two conductors together until they form a splice, making a single tightly wound braid of wire.
- 9). Cut a 1-inch length of electrical tape and wrap it tightly around the bare copper conductor and the end of the insulation so that no copper is exposed.
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Splice the second pair of conductors and wrap a small length of electrical tape around them. - 11
Gently place the speaker wire on a flat surface so that it is lying flat and straight, without pulling the newly formed splices apart. Bend one of the splices back onto the speaker wire leading to the speaker, and bend the other back onto the speaker wire leading to the audio equipment. Wrap an ample amount of electrical tape around the entire repaired section to keep the wires in place and to protect them from being pulled apart accidentally. - 12
Connect the wire back to the speaker and audio equipment, making sure to maintain proper polarity. Connect the conductor which is plugged into the negative jack on one end to the negative jack on the other end and repeat for the positive jack.
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