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Ive seen a bunch of people running their sub wires through the box using bolts. Am i losing any power by using zinc bolts or should i switch em out to stainless?

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Ive seen a bunch of people running their sub wires through the box using bolts. Am i losing any power by using zinc bolts or should i switch em out to stainless?

with steel and stainless and alum sum just use little bigger thos metals don't Carrie current as well as copper i don't think it will affect any thing to the point of cosing dam to sub usuly use 1/2 bolts on all my boxes

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pics? i dont think ive seen anybody just use bolts.... i usually go buy a beefy terminal cup that accepts 9awg or bananna plugs...

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I was afraid of this too, but just went for it. I just used regular bolts from Lowe's, the biggest ones I could get that were small enough to go through the terminal ends I purchased. No issues at all.

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I try and use all brass, all the way ( most common found is 1/4-20" which is perfectly fine)

We used to use brass size 10 bolts, and nuts for actual speaker terminals for a certain brand of speaker just because its has just about the lowest resistance, next to copper plated gold

I wouldn't use alum or stainless for nothing!

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I try and use all brass, all the way ( most common found is 1/4-20" which is perfectly fine)

We used to use brass size 10 bolts, and nuts for actual speaker terminals for a certain brand of speaker just because its has just about the lowest resistance, next to copper plated gold

I wouldn't use alum or stainless for nothing!

brass has copper beat hands down brass has lower resistance then copper and copper is to soft to use for bolts

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