Replacing rca jacks on am/fm tuner

[Guest]

Hi

How hard is it to replace rca output jacks in a Yamaha tuner? Getting a good signal on the tuner without constant jiggling the jacks' hook up is difficult. I have a 35 watt soldering iron, silver solder and some new gold plated jacks from RS. I am trying to work up the gumption to tackle the little job myself. The only experience I have soldering is with a few crossover components for speaker crossover networks and have no experience with circuit boards.

First, I might ask what wire or hookup is best to make the connections from the new jacks to the circuit board? I have junk electronic audio components around, maybe I can check to see if any wiring there is suitable. And I suppose the negative terminal of one jack can be jumped (connected) to the other negative terminal on the second and then run to the board from that point, is that correct? As you can probably tell, my electronic knowledge is very very rudimentary. So any instructions on getting these jacks swapped out without causing an explosion when I turn the thing on would be appreciated. Thank You RW

[minnie]

Radio shack if need be piece of cake. Screw out the old jack and there's only 2 wires.

[vtech]

[Guest]

Thanks for the replies. If I run into any road blocks, I may return with more clever and insightful questions?

[Guest]

[minnie]

Ground is ground on the hot side.