[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[Tim Parkhurst]

On Dec 17, 2007 7:32 PM, anthony <aankrom at bluemarble.net> wrote:
> As many of you may know, I geek out over capacitors, like when I find a
> piece of gear chock full of "F" tolerance polystyrene caps or old Sprague
> film & foil with the Orange tubing around it or TRW plastic encapsuled film
> & foil, or Black Cats, or John E. Caps...
>
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>
> I wish I had one of those wire strippers that can do more than one conductor
> at a time.
>
> But just the other day I found in my basement, a considerable stash of
> teflon insulated silver wire. Maybe a mix of 22, 24 & 26 ga.; pretty
> colors... I'm pretty sure it's Teflon because it's a bitch to strip. And I'm
> pretty sure the wire is solid silver because my early botched attempts at
> stripping the wire using my regular wire stripper reavealed no hints of
> copper (and silver plated copper wire is pretty useless really). I've since
> refined my stripping technique to cutting the wire at an angle and using two
> pairs of needle-nose pliers to strip it up the length, much the way I do the
> teflon insulated COAXIAL cable (indeed and coaxial cable nowadays...), 2
> short lenghts of which I found a while ago. I'm pretty sure they were to
> connect a probe to an insanely precise HP quartz thermometer from the 60's
> or early 70's, which also yielded up 6 Nixies and a jillion 2N274's and very
> many of the capacitors I rhapsodize about.
>
> But what to put the silver wire in... Maybe my tube phono preamp project...
>
>
> cheers,
> aa
>

Pardon my ignorance, but what difference would silver wire make?
Especially at the low voltage / current levels of most synth stuff, it
sounds like audiophile mumbo-jumbo to me. Perhaps it makes a
difference with high voltage tube stuff? I don't think it would, but
I'm open to some scientific evidence otherwise.

Oh, and for the strippers, maybe you could rig up a hot knife setup?


Tim (all mumbo, no jumbo) Servo
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