Hi 454
I duplicated my experience just a few minutes ago in this order.
I went to the garage and put a CD on (Wonderous Stories by Yes).
My garage speakers are a pair of Alessis Point 7 Monitors on tall stands so the tweeters are at ear height when I'm standing at the bench.
They do the job. 🙂
I plugged in my soldering iron and then sheathed some fresh wire on the said speaker cables.
Once the iron attained good heat I dipped the tip in flux and then wiped it on soldering iron sponge material to clean the tip.
I then placed the tip of the iron onto the bare wire and let it heat up a little.
Then I fed the area with solder supplied by SpeakerBug.
Soon after the solder melted and coated the bare metal.
The solder then solidified giving a nice coating over the bare wire.
This was repeated to both the copper colored and silver colored wires.
Both yielded similar behavior in that the solder evenly spread and adhered ok.
While doing this I tried to sing along with Jon Anderson, but I had no hope of reaching his high pitch. 🙁
I'm very disappointed with some speaker terminals which I bought from China.
Try as I did, I had great difficulty in getting melted solder adhering to the binding post terminals, but the experience taught me that some metals won't solder.
Hope this helps.
