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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