Name: Deluxe Gold Plated 1/4" Mono Plug With Knurled Base & Tight Cable Strain Relief
SKU: 540359

Deluxe Gold Plated Quarter Inch Jack Mono Plug With Knurled Base & Tight Cable Strain Relief

This gold-plated quarter inch mono plug has a knurled shell. The plug is supplied with a gold flashed cable strain relief and will accept cables up to 8mm in diameter. The cable strain relief is 20mm long, the mono tip is 30mm long, the shell (body) is 30mm long, and, once fully assembled, the whole quarter inch jack mono plug measures roughly 60mm long (not including the strain relief spring). This mono plug will make a stylish addition to your tattoo gear, and it's ultra-functional. Its gold plate makes it highly conductive and resistant to oxidation and corrosion, too.

Why Use a Gold-Plated 1/4" Jack Mono Plug?

The concentration of free electrons in gold metal is 5.90 x 1022 cm-3. Gold is highly conductive to electricity, and it's been used for electrical wiring in some high-energy applications.
Though gold is attacked by free chlorine, its good conductivity and general resistance to oxidation and corrosion in other environments (including resistance to non-chlorinated acids) has led to its widespread industrial use in the electronic era as a thin layer coating over electrical connectors of all kinds, thereby ensuring good connection. For example, gold is used in the connectors of more expensive electronics cables, such as audio, video and USB cables. The use of gold in other applications in electronic sliding contacts in highly humid or corrosive atmospheres, and in use for contacts with a very high failure cost (certain computers, communications equipment, spacecraft, jet aircraft engines) remains very common, and is unlikely to be replaced in the near future by any other metal.
Besides sliding electrical contacts, gold is also used in electrical contacts because of its resistance to corrosion, electrical conductivity, ductility and lack of toxicity. Switch contacts are generally subjected to more intense corrosion stress than are sliding contacts.
Fine gold wires are used to connect semiconductor devices to their packages through a process known as wire bonding.

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