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Where do you guys get your wire?
« on: February 12, 2004, 10:22:49 am »
Looking for cheap places that offer a wide selection of colored wire.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2004, 10:24:49 am »
Radio Shack

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2004, 10:33:11 am »
Hosfelt Electronics at www.hosfelt.com

Has anyone noticed how often this question gets asked each week?

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2004, 10:34:38 am »
I got mine at Fryes, but their locations are limited. Radio shack has three colors for .22 last time I checked.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #4 on: February 12, 2004, 10:39:14 am »
Sorry for asking I did a search and nothing came up. Gezz

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #5 on: February 12, 2004, 10:48:35 am »
GEZZ!

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #6 on: February 12, 2004, 10:59:48 am »
I had a couple of harnesses from games that had at some point been given such sloppy conversions that the harnesses were useless. I salvaged the wire from those. Yes, I am a cheap, cheap b*st*rd.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #7 on: February 12, 2004, 11:22:43 am »
I suppose it would be how you would word your search.  Searching for the term 'wire' brings up a metric ton of stuff, most irrelevant to what you're looking for.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2004, 12:03:22 pm »
Go to Menard's and buy a bundle of Cat-5 cable. If I remeber correctly 100ft is less than $200.  Cat-5 has eight strands in it.  That will give you 800 feet of wire.  Just try to make sure it is the stranded Cat-5 and not the Cat-5 with solid wires.
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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #9 on: February 12, 2004, 12:56:22 pm »
I hope you mean 1000 feet, and not 100.  100 is not a lot of CAT-5 for that price.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2004, 12:59:37 pm »
See the thread titled "best place to buy 22 guage stranded wire?" for more info.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2004, 01:14:55 pm »
Sorry for asking I did a search and nothing came up. Gezz
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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2004, 03:12:20 pm »
If you know any phone installers, get your hands on a few feet of scrap 25-pair telephone cable.  50 different colored/patterned wires!

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #13 on: February 12, 2004, 06:56:01 pm »
I got mine, and am going to get more, wire at Radio Shack. It was 4.99 for three 50 ft rolls. Each roll was a different color. Black, Red and Green. I got two packages and had more than enough.

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #14 on: February 12, 2004, 07:01:41 pm »
theRealBobRoberts.com has a few options.... But one of my favorites is 10 colors 10' each for 7 bucks or something... (then 100ft of single colors for 6 or so).  But getting some of the colors will help later.

Also, I would go stranded and not cat5.  I did my first few controlpanels with cat5 solid core and had to redo it after a while because the quick disconnects kept breaking.  With solid / non flex wire, when the wire must move, it likes to move at the joints..

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2004, 09:29:15 pm »
Just put Lilwolf's reply next to Sylentwulf's name. I'd have said the exact same thing, must be the screennames... (In fact, I JUST got that 10 colors 10' thing in a package I got from him yesterday :)

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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #16 on: February 13, 2004, 10:45:14 am »
i ordered the 10 colors package from him also. its pretty good wire and hard to find so many colors in stores around here
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Re:Where do you guys get your wire?
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2004, 09:42:28 am »
i'd just like to mention that cat5 does come in stranded which will not have the breaking problem that the solid core does.  1000 ft spindles can be had for around $40 and also gives the ability to create custom network cable when nessecary. this amount of wire should be a liftime supply for most.

also i've used solid core cat5 several times with no  problems(example-here). the trick is to solder your connections. not for everybody i realize, but it works for me. i used this type of cable since i have a large amount left over from when i wired the house.

another option for the cheap bast@rd would be long parallel port or cintronnics type cable(i find these at suplus computer stores all the time for a buck). they  contain large amounts of thin color coded wire that can be salvaged and the connectors can be used for detachable panels.