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Or rather the choice of lead, presumably a generic problem so a pre-emptive fix for these leads required, whether new or old. Apart from fixing the break in one wire on this lead. No abuse required, they will naturally self destruct.
8 way midi and audio lead but no overall shield and the otherwise nice rubbery sleeving compresses/deforms to next to nothing thickness under the plastic crocodile teeth of the internal cable grip. So the teeth end up pressing into a single active (soon to be not) wire in normal use.
Any standard amelioration for this. I'm thinking some of that nylon hosiery-like expanding mesh sleeve ( contracts more than heatshrink 3:1 perhaps), to go over the existing plug cores and then down onto the cable, perhaps 2 layers of this under the cable grips.
Assuming I can make a pin extractor for the existing trident-like pins , before reusing solder fashion.
-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
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