[Milsurplus] Cable lacing

[aGEnuine Ham]

Group:

I believe I asked this before, and received no useful answers.  Is there
a web site which has obsolete and all the current MIL-SPECS?  If so, then
the material used for cable lacing will be specified in one of them. 
Twenty years ago, it was some sort of flat woven Nylon stuff, which I
have a spool of, but what it was ca. 1941 is another matter.  And, I
suspect that a lot of WW2 equipment is going to have whatever the
manufacturer's standard practice was, coated with MFP afterwards.

We used round black cotton material at GE Communications Products
Department 45 years ago, and I have plenty of samples of that, but I have
reason to believe it was never MIL qualified.

Which brings up a related question:  Has anyone on here ever met a buyer,
engineer, or production line worker for any of the companies who built
green stuff we so regularly enjoy?  Were they all sworn to secrecy or
killed when they retired?

73,
George
W5VPQ

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 07:19:51 -0500 David Stinson <arc5@ix.netcom.com>
writes:
> Does anyone else on the lists
> have an original harness,
> who might know better than I
> what material makes up these cords?
> Milsurplus@mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/milsurplus
> 


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