teflon wire

[jjman]

I have Steve's solid teflon wire with the thin skin and I cannot use a normal stripper on it. (I don't have an electric one.) I have to use an exacto. It's worth the extra effort but I wish I had an electric during a build with it.

[CaseyJones]

Casey Jones, Hey now, thanks for the wire lacing tip! Apparently it is easier than macrame! Anytime spent up North of Mendocino is always a good time.

JBurnett, super thanks for the MIL Spec PDF! Finally a good exploded view of the required knots for both single and double lacing. I see a lot of great build quality info in that file.

I had pulled apart some old lacing to get the technique but that first knot was always cinched too tight to unravel. So it's a square knot, clove hitch, then a series of half hitches for single lace.

I need to perfect my Bowline-On-A-Bight. A bight is the area of a line that's not the end, right?

Oh, yeah. Half a square knot is a half hitch, right?

True story... I got kicked outta the Scouts fer bein' too obnoxious. The more things change the more they stay the same! I never got my merit badge for knots.

I wuz tempted to have my friend "Nurse Nasty" demonstrate a few knots for me. On second thought... nahh!!!

[NitroLiq]

I have Steve's solid teflon wire with the thin skin and I cannot use a normal stripper on it. (I don't have an electric one.) I have to use an exacto. It's worth the extra effort but I wish I had an electric during a build with it.

I use Steve's teflon wire with a stripper with no problem. Just go up a gauge with the stripper (e.g., if you have 20awg wire, use the 22awg slot on the stripper. Works a treat. Otherwise, you could pick up a thermal wire stripper on fleabay for relatively cheap.

[gearhead]

Thermal wirestrippers work with teflon? I thought it's resistant to high temps. Even if it does work, not sure if you wanna be sniffing melted teflon.

Just my uninformed opinion tho.