As I mentioned in another post, I was using good quantities of it (on a
"serious hobby" basis), in 22 - 26 awg until the late 1970's. Curiously,
until that time you could also buy DCC cable, 20 - 26 awg, conductors were
bundled in groups of 11 and the whole assembly was enclosed in PVC and
impregnated with paraffin; this cable again being a specialty item for the
pipe organ market.

I also remember silk covered wire, somewhere around here I have a small roll
of #40 silk covered. I always loved those cute little wooden rolls that old
magnet wire came on, kind of like a giant roll of thread. I am trying to
remember some of the manufacturers, maybe I'll look around and see if I
still have an old spool laying around with a label on it.

"Jim Adney" wrote in message
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On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 18:09:16 GMT "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

David Forsyth wrote:

Double Cotton-Covered ("D.C.C.") Do they still make this stuff? I
would
like to obtain some for winding RF coils for homebrew radio receivers.
Anybody know of a supplier or maybe have some on hand?

Both belden and Alpha made it

How sure are you of this? I don't recall seeing it in the Belden
catalog, and when I built a Tesla coil in the 50s a Belden engineer
helped me (Belden is still located in the town where I grew up, a
GREAT field trip, BTW.) The instructions we were following called for
DCC magnet wire, but we couldn't buy any even then. The Belden
engineer even inquired to see if their prototype shop could whip up a
batch just for us, but they didn't have any way to do it by then.

I suspect that it's been 50 years since anyone in the US has made SCC,
DCC, SSC, or DSC wire.

Everyone remember those?

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Herman Gross has been advertising 22AWG cotton covered
enamel wire in ARC for ages. W9ITT.

Pete

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"David Forsyth" wrote in message
...
Double Cotton-Covered ("D.C.C.") Do they still make this stuff? I would
like to obtain some for winding RF coils for homebrew radio receivers.
Anybody know of a supplier or maybe have some on hand?


thanks,

Dave

Herman Gross has been advertising 22AWG cotton covered
enamel wire in ARC for ages. W9ITT.

Pete

email sent via private mail.


"David Forsyth" wrote in message
...
Double Cotton-Covered ("D.C.C.") Do they still make this stuff? I would
like to obtain some for winding RF coils for homebrew radio receivers.
Anybody know of a supplier or maybe have some on hand?


thanks,

Dave

Antique Electronic Supply has it. Thay have a web site.

Bill, N5NOB

Antique Electronic Supply has it. Thay have a web site.

Bill, N5NOB

Well it is not DCC ... but 2 bobbins of DC 20 AWG just appeared on eBay !

Item number: 3056601638

GB

"David Forsyth" wrote in message
...
Double Cotton-Covered ("D.C.C.") Do they still make this stuff? I would
like to obtain some for winding RF coils for homebrew radio receivers.
Anybody know of a supplier or maybe have some on hand?


thanks,

Dave

Well it is not DCC ... but 2 bobbins of DC 20 AWG just appeared on eBay !

Item number: 3056601638

GB

"David Forsyth" wrote in message
...
Double Cotton-Covered ("D.C.C.") Do they still make this stuff? I would
like to obtain some for winding RF coils for homebrew radio receivers.
Anybody know of a supplier or maybe have some on hand?


thanks,

Dave

Hi,
BFoelsch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, the last "high-volume" use of DCC wire was
making cables for pipe organs. The pipe organ guys used it because you could
treat it as pushback wire, and that saved time due to the many thousands of
connections and conductors a typical pipe organ contains.

Tell me about it. Hundreds of wires cabled together, all the same
color. There oughtta be a law.

And:

I also remember silk covered wire, somewhere around here I have a small roll
of #40 silk covered. I always loved those cute little wooden rolls that old
magnet wire came on, kind of like a giant roll of thread. I am trying to
remember some of the manufacturers, maybe I'll look around and see if I
still have an old spool laying around with a label on it.

Belden (ha ha), Birnbach, Cornish Wire Co. on mine.

I definitely don't want to go into the supply business, but if
anyone absolutely *has* to have silk wire, I have spools of 31, 33,
34, 35 and 40 DSC, 38 double nylon, and 10x38 and 10x41 silk litz.

Cheers, Alan

Hi,
BFoelsch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, the last "high-volume" use of DCC wire was
making cables for pipe organs. The pipe organ guys used it because you could
treat it as pushback wire, and that saved time due to the many thousands of
connections and conductors a typical pipe organ contains.

Tell me about it. Hundreds of wires cabled together, all the same
color. There oughtta be a law.

And:

I also remember silk covered wire, somewhere around here I have a small roll
of #40 silk covered. I always loved those cute little wooden rolls that old
magnet wire came on, kind of like a giant roll of thread. I am trying to
remember some of the manufacturers, maybe I'll look around and see if I
still have an old spool laying around with a label on it.

Belden (ha ha), Birnbach, Cornish Wire Co. on mine.

I definitely don't want to go into the supply business, but if
anyone absolutely *has* to have silk wire, I have spools of 31, 33,
34, 35 and 40 DSC, 38 double nylon, and 10x38 and 10x41 silk litz.

Cheers, Alan

For disbelievers, I have posted a photo over on alt.binaries.pictures.radio
showing a miniscule section of a 1972 vintage pipe organ relay with
hundreds of
conductors of white DCC conductors.

"Alan Douglas" adouglasatgis.net wrote in message
...
Hi,
BFoelsch wrote:

To the best of my knowledge, the last "high-volume" use of DCC wire was
making cables for pipe organs. The pipe organ guys used it because you
could
treat it as pushback wire, and that saved time due to the many thousands
of
connections and conductors a typical pipe organ contains.

Tell me about it. Hundreds of wires cabled together, all the same
color. There oughtta be a law.