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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Industen on February 12, 2004, 10:22:49 am
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Looking for cheap places that offer a wide selection of colored wire.
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Radio Shack
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Hosfelt Electronics at www.hosfelt.com
Has anyone noticed how often this question gets asked each week?
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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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Sorry for asking I did a search and nothing came up. Gezz
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GEZZ!
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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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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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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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I hope you mean 1000 feet, and not 100. 100 is not a lot of CAT-5 for that price.
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See the thread titled "best place to buy 22 guage stranded wire?" for more info.
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Sorry for asking I did a search and nothing came up. Gezz
I got one question......what is a GEZZ? lmao.
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If you know any phone installers, get your hands on a few feet of scrap 25-pair telephone cable. 50 different colored/patterned wires!
--Chris
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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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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..
Last... Almost EVERY question gets asked once a week.... ;)
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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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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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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 (http://www.comready.com/10strancab.html) 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 (http://www.billsyardcare.com/dawgspages/dd/ddwire.jpg)). 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.