Guitar/effects cables, switching from straight in to right angle jack - help please

[sunvalleylaw]

I will probably just get a couple more live wire patch cables for the shorties. They work fine for me. the longer ones I have, I don't really want to have to buy over. They work fine too. So replacing the jacks should work fine. I will follow the solder method in those vids I find if I don't just buy new cables altogether. The blue stuff is heat shrink, and I think both insulates and protects the connection once it is soldered together, and provides stress relief from bending. It goes on with a heat gun as shown in the last vid I linked above.

It would be a fun project, but if I am in almost the cost of a new live wire cable with parts, I may just buy the cables and have my current ones as back ups. They have lifetime warranties on them too that might be voided if I mod them.

[Ch0jin]

.. The blue stuff is heat shrink, and I think both insulates and protects the connection once it is soldered together, and provides stress relief from bending. It goes on with a heat gun as shown in the last vid I linked above.

Also, as long as you don't use black heat shrink, leaving a couple of inches hanging out the plug (as per your pedal board pics) also serves as a handy place to write things like "SEND" and "RETURN" and "AMP" and stuff. At least that's what I do

Also, in a pinch you can shrink it with a lighter, the barrel of a soldering iron, a hair dryer and matches. (I think that about covers all things I've tried to shrink heat shrink with) I have a cheap little gas powered heat gun specifically made for the job now though.

Also, FWIW, I'm all about soldered cables. Solder-less feels like a solution to a problem that I don't have (i.e. not being able to solder)