[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[Travis Shire]

> 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.

I have a few spools of PTFE jacketed wire. You can usually tell because the
insulation feels slippery. And yea, it can be hard to strip. I like it
'cause the insulation won't "creep" when heated for soldering. The Ideal "T
Strippers" work well with it.
http://www.idealindustries.com/whatsnew/press_releases/view.jsp?news=t-stripper-jun07