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Orac³ Part 1
Author: Peter DickisonPublished: 16th September 2003
Firstly I obtained 22m of 3mm clear Techflex nylon braid cable sleeving - you can see a sample here (centre bag). Then I went to a pet supplies and bought about 30m (100ft or so) of clear plastic aquarium air hose. The stuff I got is crystal clear and resistant to UV yellowing - I tested it by leaving a piece sitting outside in a sunny spot (in Australia, during the worst drought since about 1901) for a couple of months and it looked like new at the end!. I chose this as it fits perfectly into the ends of the jack plugs I have, is crystal clear and is strong enough to maintain nice curves and coils.
I am using some 2-way silver/white wire, stripped out of a 16-way multicoloured ribbon cable, and run inside the clear 3mm PET Braid - then sliding the whole lot inside the fish tank hose, et Voila! Sexy futuristic looking cables that look nothing like a couple of wires! For those wires that aren't silver or white I just vinyl dye them silver. I had to use very thin wire (hence from a ribbon cable) as the two wires inside the 3mm PET braid only just fit through the aquarium hose! Sometimes I had to tie fishing line to one end of the PET braid and pull it through the fit was so tight!
Wired up, heat shrunk jack plugs and what the final wires look like when all plugged in.