Kustom speaker cables [message #17244] |
Fri, 29 June 2012 13:07 |
RobbieNuke
Messages: 66 Registered: October 2006 Location: Baltimore
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What type of speaker cables originally came with Kustom roll n' pleated amps... if any? Or did you have to buy whatever the dealer had to sell? If Kustom supplied cables (none listed in catalogs), what type of cable (round or flat, like lamp cord) and what type of plugs (Switchcraft metal, plastic, molded right angle, etc) were used?
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Re: Kustom speaker cables [message #17246 is a reply to message #17245] |
Fri, 29 June 2012 14:39 |
RobbieNuke
Messages: 66 Registered: October 2006 Location: Baltimore
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Were the Switchcraft plugs molded or soldered on? If soldered, was it the metal or plastic backshell? Funny, did Kustom have a separate accessory catalog (which I've never seen) or a dealer price sheet that had accessories listed? One would think that as popular as they were they would have had branded accessories like straps, cables, etc... Hell, they had Nauga's for cryin' out loud!
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Re: Kustom speaker cables [message #17250 is a reply to message #17247] |
Sat, 30 June 2012 14:54 |
C4ster
Messages: 686 Registered: June 2001 Location: Mukwonago, WI (Milwaukee...
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When I bought my first Kustom in 1969, a 4x12 K200B5 PA rig, the speaker cables were the flat black lamp cord style with molded straight plugs. I also think the foot switch had the same black lamp cord with a straight plug.
Conrad
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Re: Kustom speaker cables [message #17276 is a reply to message #17275] |
Tue, 10 July 2012 08:26 |
pleat
Messages: 1454 Registered: June 2004 Location: Belding, Mi
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I've never heard of that brand of cable, and in all the years I sold kustom amps, I never unpacked a kustom cabinet that didn't have the black lamp cord with the molded right angle switchcraft plugs. From your discription, your cable sounds more like a shielded audio cbable, and not a speaker cable. Audio cables have different masses of wire between hot and ground. Speaker cables have equal masses of wire between hot and ground. Using a shielded audio guitar cable as a speaker cable the center conductor is much smaller in diameter, and in high power applications, the wire can heat up and melt through the insullation and short to the shield wire, and may cause a failure in the amp.
We all have been bitten by the kustom bug, and have the fever, but common sense still has to play into cables. Using a 10 or 12 gauge monster cable with gold contacts, is a bit overkill, when you actually see the wire going from the circuit board to the speaker jack inside a kustom amp, or the size of the wires kustom used inside the speaker cabinet.
I googled the Yaxley and didn't find the company.
pleat
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Re: Kustom speaker cables [message #17277 is a reply to message #17244] |
Tue, 10 July 2012 15:19 |
bertaire
Messages: 34 Registered: April 2012 Location: burbank california
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I'm sorry I wasn't clear. I know that's a guitar cable I just was wondering if you had ever heard of that person or company. I have taken a couple of pics and will try to post them. The plug is 3 " long and bigger in dia. then standard. The wires both (hot and ground) are held in by screws, no soldering.
Would Kustom sub out chords for their amps or contract with an outside manufacturer? It was only 15.00 so I'm not harmed financially it 's just a very curious thing.
Thanks again for your time and knowledge.
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