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David Haines

What kind of hook-up wire does Elecraft use?

My son has been having trouble with the quality of hook-up wire he's
able to buy for his projects. There's clearly a difference in vendors.

I'm sure Elecraft uses the best. Any help here?

david
KC1DNY
in the woods of Maine
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Mark Goldberg

Re: What kind of hook-up wire does Elecraft use?

If you want the best, super easy to solder and strip, there is M16878/4.
M16878/5 or M16878/6 Silver plated stranded Copper wire with Teflon
insulation. It is very expensive and I can't see where to buy small
quantities except on eBay where it may be sketchy. /4 is probably most
typical 600V insulated. I got some off spool ends and you may find it at
Hamfests if someone is doing surplus stuff. It does not dry out and lose
plasticisers like PVC, so it is good even if it is old.

73,

Mark
W7MLG

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:19 AM David Haines <[hidden email]> wrote:

> My son has been having trouble with the quality of hook-up wire he's
> able to buy for his projects. There's clearly a difference in vendors.
>
> I'm sure Elecraft uses the best. Any help here?
>
> david
> KC1DNY
> in the woods of Maine
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Chris Waldrup-2

Re: What kind of hook-up wire does Elecraft use?

Hi,

I use the M22759 series for everything I build both at my home shop and lab at work, a large defense related company.
It's inexpensive and Teflon insulation.
I bought 2000 ft of #18 last week for work and it's right at 12 cents a foot. It doesn't melt when you solder to it and is easy to work with.
The 22 AWG I normally buy is 3 cents a foot.
We buy from Wiremasters south of Nashville in Columbia TN.
$50 minimum order but no minimum on wire lengths. So you could buy as many feet of each gauge and color as you would like.
Normally for home use I buy a thousand feet of a size/color at a time.
When I started my work was buying the wire from Digi-Key and it was $60 for 100 ft spool. They no longer do and didn't know about other supplier.
I can connect anyone interested with the rep there I use.

Chris
KD4PBJ
Monteagle TN

> On May 2, 2021, at 16:09, Mark Goldberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> If you want the best, super easy to solder and strip, there is M16878/4.
> M16878/5 or M16878/6 Silver plated stranded Copper wire with Teflon
> insulation. It is very expensive and I can't see where to buy small
> quantities except on eBay where it may be sketchy. /4 is probably most
> typical 600V insulated. I got some off spool ends and you may find it at
> Hamfests if someone is doing surplus stuff. It does not dry out and lose
> plasticisers like PVC, so it is good even if it is old.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark
> W7MLG
>
>
>> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:19 AM David Haines <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> My son has been having trouble with the quality of hook-up wire he's
>> able to buy for his projects. There's clearly a difference in vendors.
>>
>> I'm sure Elecraft uses the best. Any help here?
>>
>> david
>> KC1DNY
>> in the woods of Maine
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Lou Mecseri

Re: What kind of hook-up wire does Elecraft use?

Thank you, real good information. We need more info such as this.

73, Lou KE1F

On 5/2/2021 21:33, Chris Waldrup wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I use the M22759 series for everything I build both at my home shop and lab at work, a large defense related company.
> It's inexpensive and Teflon insulation.
> I bought 2000 ft of #18 last week for work and it's right at 12 cents a foot. It doesn't melt when you solder to it and is easy to work with.
> The 22 AWG I normally buy is 3 cents a foot.
> We buy from Wiremasters south of Nashville in Columbia TN.
> $50 minimum order but no minimum on wire lengths. So you could buy as many feet of each gauge and color as you would like.
> Normally for home use I buy a thousand feet of a size/color at a time.
> When I started my work was buying the wire from Digi-Key and it was $60 for 100 ft spool. They no longer do and didn't know about other supplier.
> I can connect anyone interested with the rep there I use.
>
> Chris
> KD4PBJ
> Monteagle TN
>
>
>> On May 2, 2021, at 16:09, Mark Goldberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> If you want the best, super easy to solder and strip, there is M16878/4.
>> M16878/5 or M16878/6 Silver plated stranded Copper wire with Teflon
>> insulation. It is very expensive and I can't see where to buy small
>> quantities except on eBay where it may be sketchy. /4 is probably most
>> typical 600V insulated. I got some off spool ends and you may find it at
>> Hamfests if someone is doing surplus stuff. It does not dry out and lose
>> plasticisers like PVC, so it is good even if it is old.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Mark
>> W7MLG
>>
>>
>>> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:19 AM David Haines <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>>
>>> My son has been having trouble with the quality of hook-up wire he's
>>> able to buy for his projects. There's clearly a difference in vendors.
>>>
>>> I'm sure Elecraft uses the best. Any help here?
>>>
>>> david
>>> KC1DNY
>>> in the woods of Maine
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MIKE ZANE

Re: What kind of hook-up wire does Elecraft use?

In reply to this post by Mark Goldberg

I buy all my hook up wire from All Electronics in the L.A. area. But I don't do super special type of electronics, just general stuff. I wind almost all my antenna toroids with their wire. Mike n6zw

> On 05/02/2021 2:06 PM Mark Goldberg <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>
> If you want the best, super easy to solder and strip, there is M16878/4.
> M16878/5 or M16878/6 Silver plated stranded Copper wire with Teflon
> insulation. It is very expensive and I can't see where to buy small
> quantities except on eBay where it may be sketchy. /4 is probably most
> typical 600V insulated. I got some off spool ends and you may find it at
> Hamfests if someone is doing surplus stuff. It does not dry out and lose
> plasticisers like PVC, so it is good even if it is old.
>
> 73,
>
> Mark
> W7MLG
>
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 10:19 AM David Haines <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > My son has been having trouble with the quality of hook-up wire he's
> > able to buy for his projects. There's clearly a difference in vendors.
> >
> > I'm sure Elecraft uses the best. Any help here?
> >
> > david
> > KC1DNY
> > in the woods of Maine
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