At 01:41 PM 4/18/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>Get to know someone at your local telephone company, they throw away
>large amounts of single strand multi-wire cable used for indoor wiring.
>all color coded.

It's mostly solid core, so more useful for static breadboards than
actual stuff you'd want to send out the door.

I bought 9 300' rolls of AWG22 stranded hookup wire  (passed on the
pink color) from a shop in Hong Kong for a fairly reasonable price,
but that's probably a bit off the beaten track for most of us.
Took an hour or so to make up a little bench-top rack for it.

I think it's just a small market- how many hookup wire assortments
do people buy for a lab? Probably just one, ever. So the very high
prices that Belden etc. charge don't make much difference.

If you're actually making something in volume, go to an industrial
wire distributor and buy 1000' reels, they are not very expensive. They
just take up a lot of room in a lab.

Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
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