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Offline dom0Topic starter

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Color-coded RG174 or similar coax?
« on: September 09, 2016, 08:15:06 pm »
For some internal coax wiring color-coded (colored stripes or similar) coax would be useful. Anyone now a source for these? Older Tek / HP gear often had these, but I won't break perfectly fine devices just to rip some coax out...

I don't like clip-on color markers - they tend to clip-off as easily as they clip-on. Another option that comes to mind is colored shrink tubing (although I'd like to avoid making the cables stiffer near the connectors where the marking is needed, and often also the bending radius...)
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Re: Color-coded RG174 or similar coax?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2016, 09:25:45 pm »
I use very short pieces of colored polyolefin shrink tubing:  not quite so rigid as pvc.
 

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Re: Color-coded RG174 or similar coax?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2016, 09:31:31 pm »
dom0, all the major brands of ham radio gear use shrinking tube, right next to the connectors, on all the boards.

I've use this system myself few times when is needed, on RF cables, I just put the shrinking tube half on the end of the connector and half on the cable, that way no humidity will go inside of the connector.
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