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Vintage Speaker Terminal

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 9:12 pm
by sambatyon
I recently got my hands in a vintage Fane speaker. The terminals are a style I have seen before, but I don't know the name. Each consist of to hooks perpendicular to the plane and facing in different directions. I assume the right connector would look like a T which need to be twisted. The problem is that I broke one of this hooks on each terminal trying to fit a modern quick disconnect terminal ends.

While this causes not much of an issue for me, in the end I just cut the quick connect and solder the cable directly, I thought that if I ever want to resell the speaker I much rather find a replacement. But I don't know how they are called. Any ideas?

This is an image of the tabs I mentioned:
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Re: Vintage Speaker Terminal

Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2023 10:32 pm
by xtian

Re: Vintage Speaker Terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 6:59 am
by sambatyon
These are the ones I am used to. I added an image to the original post to show the hooks I mentioned

Re: Vintage Speaker Terminal

Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2023 6:43 pm
by Phil_S
You can make one of those. You'll need a phenolic strip and then some old terminal strips with the right stuff but wrong configuration. I don't think it's worth the effort. There is no shame in fixing it with what you can find. This is not the kind of repair that's likely to impair the value.

Re: Vintage Speaker Terminal

Posted: Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:35 pm
by TUBEDUDE
I solder all speaker connections in my amps.