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 <marklgoldb...@gmail.com> 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 <dhai...@bates.edu> 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 >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to marklgoldb...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to kd4...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
