I am so over.... Stranded Wire

[playpunk]

Now I just need 500m of Juan & Cleggy's mean green.

[alanp]

Hah, just wait till you've worked a piece of solid core too much and it breaks... and you spend a long time searching on the PCB for the error.

Time and a place for everything.

[jubal81]

Change your life, brah.

[pickdropper]

Hah, just wait till you've worked a piece of solid core too much and it breaks... and you spend a long time searching on the PCB for the error.

Time and a place for everything.

Absolutely this.  Stranded wire, while a pain at times, is generally more reliable in anything where wires are moved around (sometimes even if just during assembly).

[pickdropper]

Change your life, brah.

That's my preferred wire as well.  I just wish that they hadn't changed to a version with a thicker jacket.  It's still my favorite, but not as nice as before.

[timbo_93631]

I usually use SB's #22 Pre-Bond

[lincolnic]

I usually use SB's #22 Pre-Bond

I was using only the #24 until my last order, when I ordered the #22 because #24 was out of stock. The #22 seemed to be lower quality to me - the bonding seemed to come apart when I'd bend the stripped wire (say to crimp it to a pot or switch lug), whereas on the #24 I could bend it and it'd stay together. Did anyone else run into this, or did I maybe just get a bad batch?

[peAk]

Change your life, brah.

this is what I am using and I love it as well

[Leevibe]

I usually use SB's #22 Pre-Bond

#24 bonded all the way!

[juansolo]

24AWG pre-bonded ribbon is the holy grail if you can find it. Hitachi make it, but it's commercial only as far as I can tell and I've only been able to recover it out of old Japanese HiFis.

Otherwise I use our remaining stock of the 0.6mm solid core Eagle Equipment wire (now OOP). Really good solid, resists breaks much better than any solid I've ever used. Still you never over work solid. Get it right first time or bin it and use another piece.

The other stuff I use is some NOS 20 conductor 24AWG ribbon I've got. Again, once that's gone, it's gone. But it's the best stuff I've ever used outside the Hitachi. Not pre-bond, but it's proper super high quality stuff. Weighs a tonne.

[playpunk]

I have some teflon pre bonded wire that is pretty  nice... but I just can't get those beautiful guts that I see from some of you with it.

[Leevibe]

24AWG pre-bonded ribbon is the holy grail if you can find it.

If anyone ever finds this, I would totally want some. 6 conductor would be the cat's whiskers.

[Leevibe]

I have some teflon pre bonded wire that is pretty  nice... but I just can't get those beautiful guts that I see from some of you with it.

I haven't worked with Teflon before. How does it strip?

[playpunk]

It takes a little elbow persuasion. It does look nice, though, and the insulation is pretty bombproof.

[Leevibe]

I'd love to experiment with it some time although I don't have trouble with melting insulation. Where do you get it in pre bonded?