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[gewhite]

I have a reel of white fabric over rubber wire - Gordon
White

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:36:53 -1000
 "Kludge" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com> wrote:
> In looking at the fabric over rubber wiring used way back
> when, there seem
> to be two different flavors, one that has the fabric kind
> of loose and
> easily frayed and the other has the fabric somehow bonded
> to the rubber
> which reduces fraying and makes for neater work.  Since
> I?m going to try my
> hand at making fabric over something wire in an attempt
> at making things
> appear even more authentic*, it would be nice to know how
> it was done
> originally.  ?Something? may wind up plastic, vinyl or
> Teflon dependent on
> what I can get that looks right as to overall bulk.  
> 
>  
> 
> * I may even try lacing in the tracers which would
> probably not be good
> therapy when they take me back to psych lockdown as a
> result of this
> activity.  Nor would basket weaving.  :-)
> 
>  
> 
> The way I think this will work is to use white older type
> flat shoelaces,
> wet them and force them over forms (read as: dowels)
> while they dry to
> reduce or take out the creases.  (This may also require a
> bit of ironing.)
> After that, introduce them to some RIT dye to get the
> right base colors for
> color coded wiring and put them back over the forms to
> dry.  Assuming (and
> we all know what that word means) this works as planned,
> I may actually try
> lacing in the tracers although it would be insanely time
> & labor intensive
> and only a few people would actually realize that the
> tracers are supposed
> to be there.  I think all of them are in these lists.
>  Anyway, a little
> yellow varnish to give it the official MFP look and I
> should have wire good
> for open cables.
> 
>  
> 
> If the basic project goes well ? i.e., the part about
> using shoelaces to
> make a reasonable facsimile of WW II cloth covered wire ?
> the next step
> would be to use the same basic technique to make vinyl
> over white woven
> fabric over vinyl wiring used in later aircraft.  I?m not
> sure I know what
> to seal the fabric with but after that?s done the top
> coat can be a dip in
> Dip-It clear vinyl.  If this works as I think it will,
> this will solve the
> problem of wiring up the Type 12 equipment with more or
> less period
> appropriate open wire.
> 
>  
> 
> Using shoelaces presents two problems right off.  First,
> the prices of good
> ones that don?t have the funky seams on each edge and are
> small enough have
> gone out of sight.  Second, it limits the size of any
> given run to the
> length of the longest laces I can find.  On the other
> hand, for everything
> except the SCR-A*-183 I?ll be using open wiring as much
> as possible, mostly
> because I like it but also because a good number of my
> connectors are for
> open wiring and it?s easier to convert the ones that
> aren?t to that than it
> is the ones for open wiring to shielded cable.
> 
>  
> 
> So there it is.  Thoughts?
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards,
> 
>  
> 
> Michael, WH7HG ex-K3MXO, ex-KN3MXO, WPE3ARS, BL01xh
> ex-Mensa A&P PP BGI 
> 
> I am me.  I?m the only one who?s qualified.
> 
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