[sdiy] wire glorious wire

[Dave Manley]

Any chance this is some type of  Litz wire?

-Dave

anthony wrote:
> 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)
>>
>> 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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>>
>> Harry Bissell & Nora Abdullah 4eva
>>
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