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. The last
manufacturer was, I believe, the Philadelphia Insulated Wire Company.

This stuff was getting very hard to find around 1980, I have no real reason
to suspect that it is made at all any more. But, I am sure that there is a
lot of it laying around. I just don't have any!

"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

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.

"BFoelsch" wrote in message
...
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.

Tell me about it!!

Back in the 1950s I helped restore a pipe organ
that was removed from a movie theater. The
guy removing it just wanted to scrap the pipes for
their metal, but died shortly after he started the
process. A friend got it free, just for getting it
out of there. This was a four manual Wurlitzer.

All the cable bundles had been cut with an axe!!

It took a whole summer to buzz out *thousands*
of wires and get two ranks of pipes playing on
two manuals.

73, John - K6QQ

"BFoelsch" wrote in message
...
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.

Tell me about it!!

Back in the 1950s I helped restore a pipe organ
that was removed from a movie theater. The
guy removing it just wanted to scrap the pipes for
their metal, but died shortly after he started the
process. A friend got it free, just for getting it
out of there. This was a four manual Wurlitzer.

All the cable bundles had been cut with an axe!!

It took a whole summer to buzz out *thousands*
of wires and get two ranks of pipes playing on
two manuals.

73, John - K6QQ

Alan Douglas wrote:

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

You've never worked on ground support test equipment in the
aerospace industry then. 3" diameter bundles of cables that
are all color coded white. 24 AWG teflon covered.
And that was on the "simple" ones.

Jeff

--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"

Jeffrey D Angus wrote:


Alan Douglas wrote:


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


You've never worked on ground support test equipment in the
aerospace industry then. 3" diameter bundles of cables that
are all color coded white. 24 AWG teflon covered.
And that was on the "simple" ones.

Jeff

Or old lead-sheathed telephone cable where they were wrapped
individually in paper...all the same color of course.

-ex

Jeffrey D Angus wrote:


Alan Douglas wrote:


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


You've never worked on ground support test equipment in the
aerospace industry then. 3" diameter bundles of cables that
are all color coded white. 24 AWG teflon covered.
And that was on the "simple" ones.

Jeff

Or old lead-sheathed telephone cable where they were wrapped
individually in paper...all the same color of course.

-ex

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.

Alan Douglas wrote:

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

You've never worked on ground support test equipment in the
aerospace industry then. 3" diameter bundles of cables that
are all color coded white. 24 AWG teflon covered.
And that was on the "simple" ones.

Jeff

--
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
Tara Morice as Fran, from the movie "Strictly Ballroom"