this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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And is there a way to push this metal tab back in? It doesn't want to go.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First picture is a spring loaded speaker wire connector.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Amazing thank you! Couldn't find the right words to Google.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The second picture is the back of the same connector. The metal tab has come out of the black connector and I'm trying to see if I can fix it or need to replace

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you have a soldering iron just replace it with some screw terminal banana sockets. They're sturdy, can take almost anything and cheap.

[–] glimse 6 points 1 year ago

Seconding this if it's an option. I HATE those spring speaker connectors.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm yes. Thanks! I'll have to figure out how to do that. You've given me an idea because there's an audio out port just next to it that I don't use so maybe I can remove that and put the banana in there and just solder it to that tab on the negative terminal.