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Re: Wire

To: "Charles Christ" <cfchrist@earthlink.net>, "Larry Cogan" <woodrat@spacey.net>, "Spridget List" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Wire
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 09:19:41 -0700
References: <006e01bfa7b8$df0dae20$523dd0ce@user> <001301bfa793$21765ee0$7c50f4d1@USER>
I have not shopped at these sources, but found them on the SOL site:

British Wiring Inc.
20449 Ithaca
Olympia Fields, IL  60461
708-481-9050

British Pacific Ltd.
3317 Burton Ave.
Burbank, CA
800-554-4133

Narragansett Reproductions
PO Box 51
Wood River Junction, RI  02894
401-364-3894

This information could be stale, as the site was last updated October
1996...
David Riker
74 Midget
78 Midget
63 Falcon
http://personalweb.sunset.net/~davidr
----- Original Message -----
From "Charles Christ" <cfchrist at earthlink.net>
To: "Larry Cogan" <woodrat@spacey.net>; "Spridget List"
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 4:01 AM
Subject: Re: Wire


> in the past my quest for correct color wires to repair a harness has been
> fruitless.  what I ended up doing was saving a few harness's from scraped
> cars and taking what I needed from them to repair damaged or cut harness
in
> cars.   the only thing I did choose to do when doing this type of repair
was
> to cut open the harness wrap and cut back the damaged wire up where it
would
> be covered by the shielding to wrap of the main harness.  I always solder
> the repair and use a double piece of heat shrink tubing to cover the
> soldered aerea.  the second piece of heat shrink is just a paranoid
> precaution I picked up a while ago.  found that soldering upside down
under
> dashes and such you sometimes get a single strand of wire that stands up
and
> becomes rigid as heck once soldered.  that strand sometimes will pierce a
> single layer of heat shrink tubing, hence a second layer(sometimes you
just
> miss clipping the little sharp piece off).  after soldering just rewrap
the
> harness back up to where that wire was to come out and a repair that is
> almost undetectable.   at least this way you do not have a million
different
> wrong colored wires all stuck together with crimp on wire connectors or
> worse stuck to other wires using those pesky little scotch locks that come
> in stereo installation kits.
>
> just food for thought?
> chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Larry Cogan <woodrat@spacey.net>
> To: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 3:31 PM
> Subject: Wire
>
>
> > Has anyone found a source of wire that is color coded matching factory
> > colors?  I need to do some minor rewiring and would like to use proper
> color
> > codes so that two years from now someone isn't on the list talking about
> me
> > as the DPO.........Larry
> >
> >
> >
>



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