[ARC5] vintage headphone cords?

[hwhall at compuserve.com]

Yes, the complication in making replicas of the original cords is that there was a Y split partway between the pins end and the phones end to make separate leads to each earpiece, along with a lead in the Y that ran from one earpiece to the other (IOW the cans are in series). There's another split in the leads right before each earpiece so that separate wires enter each can. All of the wires seem to have a single piece woven outer covering.

 

 I think I saw a place that had some repro cloth covered tinsel wire for antique speaker leads. And last year I found a place that does custom cloth weaving for vintage repro wiring harnesses. It might be expensive but the two resources together might be able to result in a repro headset cable. Maybe....

Wayne
WB4OGM

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Aug 26, 2016 11:44 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] vintage headphone cords?

It seems to me that I did see one of those sites with the wire on 
it. Making a Y cord can probably be done with it but I am not sure of 
the best way to connect the outer covering at the joint. The cords I 
have all look like the outer cord cover was woven in one piece.

On 8/26/2016 10:18 PM, Lee wrote:
> Check out some supply houses supporting old telephone collectors. (Old
> farm house type telephones used this type cord.)  They may have
> something you can use.
> Lee, w0vt
>>> Is there someplace that makes the old cloth-covered tinsel-wire vintage
>>> headphone cords? The kind that used to be found on Brandes, Trimm, etc.
>>> from the 1920s or 1930s or so? Google hasn't been my friend. I have some
>>> 1920s era sets whose cords are pretty far gone.
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>> WB4OGM
>>>
>>>
>>> __
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