At 12:41 PM 4/17/2004, PicDude wrote:
>This is strange ... I can't seem to find coloured hookup wire (purple, brown,
>gray, lime, orange, striped, etc -- anything other then red, black, white,
>green) almost anywhere.  18 and 20 AWG stranded.  I've only found some at
>meci.com, but their website is really slow and kludgy, so I gave up after
>some time.  And Digikey's prices seem high (~$20 per 100' roll).

One easy hobbyist solution is to find scrap multi-core wire in longer
lengths and use the conductors from that.  Telephone wire is great for
breadboarding (24 awg solid) and the wire in cheap printer or serial cables
($1 flea market specials) generally has 12 to 15 different colors inside.

Its cheap and does not take much more than a minute to rip the jacket from
a 20 foot cable with a zip knife or box cutter.  Takes me even less time -
but I've got a specialized cable jacket ripper.

dwayne

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