Charlie Longley
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Anchorage, AK
Does anyone have a good technic for marking wires? I’ve been doing more and more electrical work lately. All I’ve come up with so far is writing on heat shrink which is tedious.
Has anyone tried the Dymo Rhino with 1/4” tubing?
Just did a bunch of wires down to 18 gauge tefzel using ~$15 P-Touch labelmaker, with flexible tape and small font, covered with clear shrink tube. In the past I've used the Electrician's number tabs in little tear-off book, but with the P-Touch, you can include a text descriptor, not just a number.
One other hint which is helpful, is to label not only both ends, but every couple feet in the middle. Helps future troubleshooting. The factory, and some large avionics shops have a machine which will apply number every foot or whatever it is that Mil-spec calls for.
Thanks. cubscout
Does anyone have a good technic for marking wires? I’ve been doing more and more electrical work lately. All I’ve come up with so far is writing on heat shrink which is tedious.
I just tried out the Dymo Rhino 4200. For $100 with a couple of spools of cable marker I am reasonably happy. The smaller wire is 18. To get the text vertical you need to go to the General mode.
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Which one did you get?Couple months ago I got a new toy in the shop. This new machine laser etches the markings on the wires. Several advantages to this. The markings do not come off with any chemicals, not even MEK. Since a computer controls the printer, I can adjust size, font, and spacing of the characters. And, I can print on any type of wire such as single conductor or shielded. Even multiple conductor wires that I previously needed to mark with sleeves.
I highly recommend having this type of wire marking done for any project from a new install to a complete rewire job.
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