[TowerTalk] wire sources

Pete Smith n4zr@contesting.com
Mon, 25 Dec 2000 14:23:56 -0500


At 09:09 AM 12/25/00 -0600, n4kg@juno.com wrote:
>That is an amazingly good price for #14.
>At Home Depot, stranded is more expensive
>than solid wire.  I forgot the exact prices but
>definitely more than that quoted below.
>
>Tom  N4KG
>
>On Fri, 15 Dec 2000 09:15:45 -0600 n5nug <n5nug@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>> If there is one close, go to your local GrayBar Electric supply
>> house. I buy 500' rolls of #14 stranded/insulated for $5.99 a roll
>> here in Dallas. 73, Ed - N5NUG

Price at Home Depot here is more like $22.00 for a 500-foot spool of THHN
stranded.  Tri-State Electric -- the local Graybar equivalent -- isn't
much, if any, less.

73, Pete N4ZR
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