LP12 pickup wires affect suspension??

I have an LP12 with Grace 707 tonearm.
My wires and plug to the arm went south.

I ordered a new plug very nicely made and soldered onto "Cardas cable" from Sweetcome audio on fleaBay.

Sweetcome did a nice job on the cabling/plug...but I find with the heavier cable that now has to drop through the tonearm hole in the baseboard of the deck, there does not seem to be any way to relieve the weight off the suspension.

In the LP12 setup manual, they talk about how to terminate the wires from the tonearm. This would not be possible in my case, they are just too fat.

Has anyone else run into this?

Any ideas on how to deal with the tonearm cable weight and how it affects the suspension?

I am about ready to break out the silver wire and soldering pen to create my own leads. The sound from the Sweetcome setup is nice, but the LP12 being so picky about getting the "bounce test" just right, I must come up with a way to compensate for the offset in weight/travel.