[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[John L Marshall]

Silver plating works well at radio frequencies. Consider the skin effect. 
Small L's deserve small R's.

Take care,
John
www.sound-photo.com
www.antenna-farm.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Parkhurst" <tim.parkhurst at gmail.com>
To: "anthony" <aankrom at bluemarble.net>
Cc: <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 9:10 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] wire glorious wire


> 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...
>>
> snip
>>
>> 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
> -- 
> "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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