Best Source for Color Coded Wire

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by zeno

If you only need short lengths find a junk tube type Zenith
& cut out what you need. The wire is braided & tinned then
a rubber jacket. On top of that is cloth that comes in all
solid colors & striped colors. IMHO its the best wire used in
ANY consumer electronics. I would love to know who made
it & how they could afford to use it. Up til the end we kept a
box of clippings for jumpers etc at the shop. For longer wire
the wire from convergence clovers can be several feet &
color coded often.

73 Zeno

Junk and tube type Zenith don't belong in the same paragraph let alone sentence IMHO. If there is enough left to salvage wire from, then there is probably enough to be worth restoring...

A less cruel set to get wire from would be an 80's console TV. Many of those attached the controls to the PCB with 1-4' long harnesses that are often fairly decent for tube work. Some time ago I took such a harness from a Sylvania and built an audio amp with a tube count comparable to a TV with it.