[ARC5] vintage headphone cords?

[Richard Knoppow]

    I can think of a way to make a Y cord using new wire but it requires 
being able to remove a wire from the cloth covering and inserting it in 
another section of cloth covering. I think this is possible but have not 
tried it. Nearly all double phones have the two phones in series (an 
exception is the Brush crystal phone where the two are in parallel), 
they split the wire so one end goes to each phone and use a third wire 
to go from one phone to the other.

On 8/26/2016 11:44 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
> 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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