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[wf2u at ws19ops.com]

As John said, get the manual. I got a copy of the manual from Robert,  
and it's indispensible in wiring the controls and maintaining the radio.

My ARB to control box cable was homemade by the previous owner and  
it's ugly because the individual wires are all the same color and  
gauge (#14) but the length is only 2 feet - and the whole "bowl of  
spaghetti" is not encased in a sleeve. I'll have to completely rewire  
it to look decent and use the correct gauges.  If I recall, the manual  
calls out the wire gauges and has an assembly drawing for the control  
cables - I'll look at the book when I get home from work. Bear in mind  
that the control box switches the primary 24 V feed to the  
dynamotor/filaments so the 24 V line should be large enough to carry  
the current without any significant voltage drop for the proposed  
cable length. The other wires are just control wires, but the  
bandswitch lines also carry some current at 24 V to the bandswitch  
motor. I don't think it's more than an amp or so.

John, I've been looking for some tubing which has the looks of WW2  
vintage rubber cable jackets. I was thinking along the lines of  
thin-walled rubber tubing, but my search is unsuccessful.
I don't know what the Expando sleeve is, I'll look it up.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC


Quoting "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>:

> Have you looked at the manual? Robert Downs likely has copies.
>
> I'm pretty sure the cables are pin-to-pin w/o cross-connects, but that's
> not certain.
>
> If you want period correct wires, that is not easy. I generally use 19
> strand white Teflon hook-up wire, roughly #16 to #20, inside a jacket of
> black or white Expando tubing.
>
> Ready made original cables are likely still in the planes.
>
> -John
>
> ============
>
>
>> Hello again from Joe w5jdy in Okla.   I would like to make a connecting
>> cable to go from a ARB military radio to the remote control head...  I
>> have
>> the connectors...  Anyone have any advice?   Mainly the size of the wires
>> and how many of each size... Sure would like to buy one already made-up...
>> Thanks Joe
>>
>
>
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