Wiring ground stars and other busy junctions

[makinrose]

Hello
 I've been reading this forum for a while, and finally decided to join in.
 When I built my first amp, a Portaflex copy as per TUT3, I found that wherever I had more than 4 or 5 wires going to the same eyelet it got quite messy. Not surprisingly I ended up with some bad solder joints to track down. What I ended up doing was replacing the eyelets in question with machine screws mounted through the same holes in the eyelet board. I then soldered ring terminals onto the ends of the leads and bolted them together. It solved the problem and I used the same approach when I built my second amp.
 My question is what do you do when you want to connect a lot of things in one spot? I've never seen wires bolted to the board in anyone else's amps, but I've never seen eight wires trying to cram into one eyelet, either.

I generally use larger eyelets for the ground connections or connections that have larger gauge wires attached.  Keystone make many sizes besides the standard 1/8" mounting hole size most builders use. Any of those size can be purchased from Mouser.   

Alternatively, you could use two or three eyelet of the standard size and connect them together.