well hey guys zahkman here and today I'm going to show you how to do gender
reassignment surgery on a snake. now I'm kind of making a little bit of fun but
this is a snake we use for one of our campuses it's an old analog snake with
big copper cable and they need one more output for headphones or monitors so
this channel 24 here I'm going to take that from a female which would be an
input into the board turn it in to be a male so it can be used as an output from
the board to use for monitors so if that's something you're looking into
doing this might be helpful for you so this snake is fairly simple it's got
four kind of screw holes in this front plate I've already removed then
basically I have this one left here I'm just going to pop that open and as I pop
this open you can take a look at the snake structure in here there's a fair
bit of tension in these cables but in order to work on them you have to kind
of pull them out and be bit cautious with that but also don't be afraid to do
what you got to do to work on this and go to keep track of which channel
exactly I want to change I know offhand it's this one because you take a look at
this side here this is 24 here and if I turn that around here that's 24 here so
first thing I want to do is keep track of my cable and cable is available 24
and so what you want is you want to desolder this connection first so you
can remove that end so what I'm going to do is got my soldering iron here ready
to go I'm gonna make sure the end is nice and clean I have some some solder
just to add a little solder to the end if you if you want to sometimes that
helps to transfer the heat to the disorder and make sure it's this one
here in this case it's fairly simple I'm just going to touching anything else
touch the side of this here cause that solder to melt pull a cable out
so now you have those removed that is ready to have this end pulled up the
soldering iron back I'll flip this around and you know it's 24 the way
these are connected there's lucky little screws and little nuts on the back so
I'm going to just grab screwdriver and pliers there's gonna be a little bit
tricky sometimes get a plier on to the screw and then you turn this around and
might be a little easier hold it down like that and on the other side use a
screwdriver and remove there we go so that is now removed okay
fuck this off to the side now next thing we want to do is attach our male end and
it's male chassis male end and it has the same kind of cups as though the
other one this is actually a new trick brand one I would always just recommend
the new trick stuff it just seems to work better than everything else we have
used is simpler that works more efficiently I just love the way they
work and so that's these so weird I attach these instead of using this screw
you saw how a bit of a bother that is to remove I find a much simpler way to
apply these is actually to use a rivet gun so I'm gonna show you how that works
so you're gonna put this back up on here just for a second mr. chose to put this
one screw back in so this is easier to hold in place so we've modified a rivet
gun and ground down this end so they can fit into these XLR spaces really well so
what we like to do to attach these now is to put these in place have the
correct size of rivet sometimes I'll just load these both in at the same time
just so they they hold in place organs put into the gun maybe that's even
simple to be honest put it into the rivet gun and then making sure this is
straight by your hand with your hand just rivet that down well
it's on there tightly there we go
now that's nice and securely attached the only downfall is to remove it you
have to use a drill but that really goes actually quite fast you just boom boom
take it out I think it's still faster than what I just have to do to remove
those screws so I would always recommend doing the rivets but that's just my
little reference take the screw back out here and now we are ready to resolder
that cable onto the new jack alright so now that we got the male chassis male
end mounted on Taurus nake we're ready to solder it and it's already facing the
right direction the way we have the snake layered so that the solder won't
run out and that's ready to go first thing you want to do is Christopher make
sure you have the right cable it's actually numbered here as well and then
you want to make sure you're soldering the right wire onto the right end now on
this case this was a neutral end that we had taken from a different project so
it's already actually pretended but I'll show you guys how to do that first and
you'll want to see make sure you have the right wire number so I could off use
my flashlight get right in there and
there's tiny little numbers labeled on each of these this is in one that's been
to is it's in three so pin one is always gonna be your ground and in this case
it's actually has a clear heat shrink on it pin two is always hot which is always
white and pin three is cold or negative which is always black so this is a pin
one this should be the opposite of how it was before since we've changed the
gender so one is going to go here to two is gonna go here and three is gonna go
there so the first thing you want to do is get make sure you have solder in the
cups of the Nutri chassis mount end and that's called tinning it so I have a big
long stretch of solder here that's got rosin core in it
I put a tiny dab on the soldering iron because that transfers the heat better
in this case I try to move stuff out of the way so you don't burn or melt
anything and I try to get underneath the cup dump that down and add solder to the
cup is almost full
do the same
it has enough solder bro I'm just a bit more
good there we go I'll clean off the soldering iron since
these wires are being reused they are shared yaar tin is already solder all
around the wires and so don't have to do that again but otherwise if they weren't
you would do the same thing where you would um add sort of to these ends and
what I do is I go from left to right to avoid getting the cables in the way cuz
I'm right-handed and I use it in my right hand if you're left-handed you
would do the opposite but you want to always think about not melting other
cables and being very careful where you put your soldering iron so in this case
this is 10 this is 10 that's ready to go grab the soldering or one more time I
hold the solder underneath the cup to melt it
get only melt together so I depend three necks just because it's from left to
right in this case actually there's a bit more exposed on the end than I would
normally like I would like the rubber to go right into the end of the pin so I'm
just going to chop a little bit of that off there we go any metals together and
then you're off to the races the last leap into this we have to be very
careful going to so many other wires from the way you don't want to help them
good we have to hold those wires on there until the solder hardens and now
we've effectively changed the gender of this cable to go from being a onion put
to an output from female to male simple enough thing to do just put this
back on the front and put the screws back in oh yeah once you have that done
you just solder the other end of the snake in this case it's a whole
different location so that'll be done separately thank you so much for
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