right. 3 of em just came up and I asked little simple questions which I later found answers to just by messing with it. And they all say "oh that's a complicated deck" or "the manual on that is THIS thick!" or "I haven't read into it yet"

Losers.

anyways....easy cheap way to splice? I'm gonna need a wire stripper...and a way to connect them together with no solder....I don't have that many tools. Anytime I work on things it's at my buddy's place...but I want to do this myself.