Topband: PTFE wire supplier

[Tim Shoppa]

There are "equipment de-installers" that salvage different size/color hunks
of Teflon/Tefzel wire from their day jobs and sell the pieces on E-bay at
what hams would consider reasonable prices. Lengths are all over the place
from a few feet at a time to many dozens of feet at a time.

At higher prices on Ebay, you can find partial or sometimes full rolls of
Teflon wire as industrial surplus.

You can go to any major electronics distributor and find Alpha, Belden,
etc. new spools of Teflon covered wire in any gauge and size you want. A
small 100 foot roll of 22 AWG silver-plated stranded Teflon wire lists for
$90. i.e. not usually considered affordable by hams. But boy is it a joy to
solder to.

If you've worked professionally with Tefzel/Teflon wire in the past you
already know this, but having access to a good thermal stripper makes
stripping the stuff easy. Hand tools make stripping Tefzel difficult and
are not really usable if you are needing to strip more than a few ends at a
time.

Tim N3QE

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 3:17 PM Roy Morgan <k1lky68 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have asked a friend in FL to remind me of a company there which has
> offered a variety of Teflon wire.
>
> Will report.
>
> Roy Morgan
> K1LKY Western Mass
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