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
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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"

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

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 Radio Daze (www.radiodaze.com) and Antique Electronic Supply
(www.tubesandmore.com) list cotton-covered wire in their catalogs for radio
restoration.

"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

Dave -

Contrary to what has been posted, cotton cloth braiding machines still
exist --
even at the big wire manufacturers -- however today they are usually used
for special orders.

Now, Odis W. LeVrier OWNS a cloth braider and makes beautiful replacement
cloth wire for
antique telephones (cloth covered tinsel, cloth covered line cords, desk set
cords) Photos are on
his web page. Please contact Odis directly for your special requests or
orders - he may be able to accommodate!
http://www.houseoftelephones.com/index.htm

Other "urban legend" - No one is fixing classic WE, AE, SC telephones
anymore - WRONG
Steve Hilsz just fixed my Dad's old Northern Electric desk phone - now worth
over $ 200
in collectable/antique telephone market ! You should see what the original
candlesticks sell for !!
http://www.navysalvage.com/

w9gb

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

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

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

Bill, N5NOB

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