[Milsurplus] Wire Thoughts

[Don Davis]

Try using small diameter mil surplus coax.  It has a surface texture and 
size that is similar to wwii wire.  Also, there has to be millions of 
miles of wwii scrapped aircraft harness lying around?  Somewhere.  In 
AZ?  Maybe an avionics shop at a small airport?

Make wire from shoelaces?  Really?  Really?  The only thing worse (in my 
mind) than someone looking at your rig and saying it's not 100% 
authentic, is someone looking at your rig and realizing that you made 
wire from shoelaces to make it "look" authentic...  As far as I can tell 
(from 9 years in B-52s, 32 years in aerospace, many years in comm'l 
electronics) nobody ever designed a harness to "look" a certain way.  It 
had to function and meet spec.  Then when the equipt suite  changed, the 
harnessed changed and looked different.

Good luck!

73 de don ad6pb