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I have just acquired a truckload (~ten thousand feet) of connectorized 25-pair key system cable. I am making it available to my fellow collectors and operators at below industry cost.

There are lengths from 6 feet to 200 feet, with M and F Amphenols, in M-F, M-M, and F-F combinations.

Good for key systems, channel banks, jumper cables in your SUV.

Let me know what you need and we'll make a deal.

631 - 749 - 0100 anytime

Jumper cables?!

I think he means jumpers as in "between 66 blocks".

Actually I have cut the heads off 25 pair amphenol cables and used them as jumper cables for trucks. Takes two people...just press hard across the respective battery posts. I have also used drop wire looped a couple of times as a tow rope when my buddy's 66 Mustang broke down.

I suppose whatever works, especially in a pinch, but jeez. Though, with the amount of copper in a 25 pair cable, I could see that working fairly well. Drop wire as a tow rope... Now that's just too much. I suppose I have no room to talk, I've used extension cords and all sorts of crap when nothing else is available. Still funny though.

Need some. Will try to call you later

Ken

I used a 5 foot length of 25-pair as a frame-to-engine ground wire on a 1973 Porsche 914, just to get home. The factory ground wire was spot welded to the frame, and bolted to the engine. The spot weld broke. I cut off the Amphenols, used a Bernzo-Matic to get rid of the insulation at both ends, and made a ring at each end by soldering the wires into a loop.

It worked for a few hundred miles until I got home, and probably would have worked forever. I have never figured out what the equivalent wire gauge would be, of 50 strands of #24. I guess I should do that one of these days.

Stop! Someone's going to read this and assume that this is how to properly ground a system.

50 strands of #24 = approximately one strand of #6.5 = ampacity of approx 90 amps.

Not too shabby. Though now some sparky is going to think he can use remnants of abandoned 1A2 installs to ground a service panel.