Broken Speaker Plug

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Hello,

I recently noticed that one of my Chord (I think it was) speaker cables has broken at the plug. What is the best way to fix this?

The cable itself seems to consist of a number of silver wires woven around plastic (I think) strands and a plastic core. Pictures attached.

It appears that all the soldered contacts have broken and some of the solder/ wire is still stuck inside the plug itself. (I can't get it out). Do I just buy a new plug? Is there a specific type of one I need? Do I just solder this using any solder and an iron, or is there a non- soldering method I can/ should use?


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Thanks
 
Ah so that's what that thing is called :) Ok thanks - are there different ones for wires that sit around a core like that or are they all the same? I imagine I want to leave the strands longer than the core and just secure them into the plug?
 
Lucky I got the cables for free then eh?! ;)

Yeah the cable contains hardly any actual wire at all! Almost tempted just to get some better cable with more metal inside
 
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Thanks - got it all sorted out today... and I would replace those darned cables with pure copper ones if they weren't all fixed into cable tidies etc. The cables are such thick gauge/ the wire is woven in such a way that my cable strippers would just break the silver wires every time I tried to strip the plastic off - near enough took my thumb off with a Stanley knife (only thing that worked in the end) trying to cut through all that plastic to get a clean end to secure in the new plug.
 
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