Source of many colored wire

[Harry Bissell]

Personally I NEVER use solid wire except for vector boards. Always use stranded
for pots jax etc. I use 22ga belden (or similar) have it in a few colors (like 5 or
6)...
use black for ground, red for plus, violet for minus, etc...

Be on the lookout for like 24-26 solid wire with kynar insulation... Its used to be
wire wrap wire... but many places are now chucking it out...  I like it FOR vector
board...

Find of the year was a big spool (probably about 500') of single conductor shielded
Belden Neopreme Insulated "Mic Cord". Can you say "Patch cords"???

Today's trash is tomorrow's treasure. You just need to live that long...

"J.G. Wong" wrote:

> Thats interesting,  I have 3 spools of that stuff we used to pin out db
> 25s for our dumb terminals, it was so expensive, now I can't give it
> away..  I have been using 21 gauge solid core for nomal hookup and
> 20something gauge shielded Belden for controls and outputs.  Is this
> stuff as good as the other stuff or close. Coincidently I was buying
> some wire today and my salesman was cracking at me about the Lucas
> Electrical school of hookup.
>
> G. Wong
>
> Mike Granger wrote:
> >
> > My method for getting a decent number of colors of hookup wire is to get my
> > hands on leftover portions of rolls of multi conductor cable. I managed to get
> > lots of surplus 9 and 12 conductor 22 gauge cable that used to be in our
> > building for serial computer cable applications. I spend some of my spare time
> > stripping the outer vinyl jackets off, and I use the 9 or 12 different colors
> > for my projects. It works for me.
> >
> > KA4HJH wrote:
> >
> > > >I've done harness wiring in studios before, and I'd use the resistor color
> > > >code to decide which wires were which channel.  Works about as well as any
> > > >other method.
> > >
> > > This reminds me of a perennial problem: finding muliti-colored wire
> > > at a decent price. Years ago a friend who worked for a telephone
> > > system company gave me a huge ball of leftover wire that has lasted
> > > me until now. Unfortunately it's almost gone, and I don't see as many
> > > colors in the Mouser catalog. It would be nice to have at least 8-10
> > > colors in both solid and stranded, but unless you're buying huge
> > > spools the price is prohibitive.
> > >
> > > Writing FAQ's is a good idea, any way we could start a co-op for
> > > stuff like this?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> > > "The Mac Doctor"