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tkamiya:
I put this in BEGINNERS' section for it's a question I ought to already know the answer - but I don't.  It's about electrical wires, the kind we see in high quality instruments such as HP and Tektronics from 80s. 

We all know stranded and solid.  We all know bare cupper and tinned.  Then there is a third kind...  This is my question.  The said wire starts out as stranded.  Then they are lightly twisted and "tinned" via solder so it becomes one piece.  Wires are not tinned individually as in plating.  But they are all tinned together.  The wire is like this already every time I peel the insulation.

What is this called?

This is my favorite kind of hookup wire.

nsrmagazin:
Please post a picture. Your description is good, but I would prefer a picture.

Maybe you mean this:
https://www.nassaunationalcable.com/tinned.html

Doctorandus_P:
I have also encountered this wire a few times.
It looks like tinned multistrand, but all strands are indeed soldered lighty together under the isolation. It also does not have much strands. It may have been 7 (1 + 6 around) or maybe only 4 or 5 strands altogether.

This seems to be used for high-voltage wire sometimes.
I have no idea how it is called.

alsetalokin4017:
I just happen to have a scrap of this wire handy. I don't remember what I pulled it out of, maybe a dead xbox controller. A photo doesn't show much. I like this wire because it is almost as flexible as regular stranded, but it works well in solderless breadboards since it doesn't fray and is stiff enough to put in the holes.

It looks completely ordinary on the outside, but is marked in very small letters:

CSA AWM 24AWG I A FT1 90oC 300V E77981 WONDERFUL-D

tkamiya:
This is a 40x image of the said wire. 

This is in size of regular hookup wire size, like 20 to 24 gauge.

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