Source of many colored wire

Doug Tymofichuk dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca
Wed Apr 19 16:05:03 CEST 2000


On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 23:45:15 -0400 Harry Bissell 
<harrybissell at prodigy.net> wrote:

> 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...

Exactly, I would not use solid wire anytime there is a 
chance that it will be flexed (99% of the time). For 
shorter lengths, just rip some out of a dead stereo or VCR.

> Today's trash is tomorrow's treasure. You just need to live that long...
> 
AND be enough of a packrat to hang onto the stuff that long 
(not a problem for me!). And somehow pick the right stuff 
to save (or just save everything, like I do ;-).
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Doug Tymofichuk
dougt at cancerboard.ab.ca




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