[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[anthony]

It's stranded and too heavy a guage for wire-wrapping. Well most of it - 
about 22 ga. I'd say. All my rigorous testing show it to be silver all the 
way through. The insulation is too thick for Kynar - or at least the Kynar 
I've seen on wrapping wire. And like I said, this is stranded and thick - 
woud be a bitch to wrap with. Although I've seen "semi-bond" and solid 22 
ga. or 24 ga. wire wrapped on certain posts on PCB's like for pot. and 
transformer connections (when it would have been just as well to solder them 
one).

> 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)
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> H^) harry
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> 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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