[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[harrybissell at wowway.com]

I'd bet the wire is silver-plated Kynar insulated wire-wrap
wire, from your description of it. I prototype with it a lot...
nice stuff for breadboards (not solderless)

H^) harry



On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:32:32 -0500, anthony 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...
> 
> But what you may not know is that I geek out over wire too. Like 
> when I find a good stash of good quality cloth covered wire or 
> brightly colored thick insulated, 22 ga. solid conductor. But I also 
> like newer stuf like what I think is called "semi-bond": stranded 
> wire that is already tinned with solder all the way up. I like it 
> solitary or in rainbow ribbons, or all black in widely-spaced 
> ribbons, maybe with a little line pressed in between the conductors 
> to make it easier to separate strands.
> 
> 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
> 
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