[Milsurplus] ceramic beads

[Ken Kinderman]

Hello everyone,

Some of you may already know about these, but here is a source for the
little ceramic bead insulators found on RF leads in aircraft installations.
They are the single hole beads, with one concave end and one convex end
which are strung on a wire to form a semi-flexible lead, say, for the ARC-5
antenna daisy chain.

http://www.omega.com/pptst/SH_DH_FS_OV.html

Omega engineering calls them "fish spline" insulators. Maybe they mean to
say "fish spine". Whatever you call them they are the real thing. And they
come in many sizes. I also recall seeing very small ones in a VHF set for
the 832A plate leads.

I remember being down on Radio Row in NYC years ago before I knew what they
were, and there was a barrel full of them, being sold by the pound...

73,

Ken
W2EWL
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