And now the Loom!

Discussion in 'Mech Tech' started by DubCat, Nov 15, 2019.

  1. DubCat

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    Good to know as I bought the same one.
     
  2. A proper 555 with legs on, and proper resistors with leads :thumbsup:
     
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  3. DubCat

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    I'll pretend to understand that and say "good news"!
     
  4. It is! Earlier ones even have valves in :thumbsup:
     
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  5. DubCat

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    No spaghetti in sight, plug n play :)
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    Got this lot ready to do tomorrow
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  6. Clothes pegs! I knew I was missing something...
     
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  7. DubCat

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    Seriously, they're really useful, especially doing dash stuff.
     
  8. Did you use loom tape? Super stuff :thumbsup:
     
  9. DubCat

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    As if. Only the finest heatshrink for my anorexic loom.
     
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  10. stirlingmoz

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    That is OCD level tidy. Great work :thumbsup:

    Stirlingmoz
     
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  11. Dubs

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    Very tidy! :thumbsup:
     
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  12. mikedjames

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    Tidy until you find the whole lot is sawn through by the handbrake lever en route to the fuse box .. dont forget it sweeps across a fair bit of the under dash region. It was the cause of my bus blowing the indicator fuse every time I turned left and did a hill start . With the OG loom..
     
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  13. Isn't it a little stiffer than you'd like, sir?
     
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  14. mikedjames

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    This is true. Its probably why in the world of electronics , the cable bundle would be threaded into a woven sheath or a spiral wrap or a flexible trunking, otherwise the one wire on the outside of the bundle inside the heatshrink gets stretched if you bend the stiff bundle.
    In multicore cables, the cable wire cores are deliberately not attached to the outer covering sheath- either talcum powder or a wrap on a loose bundle or similar is used.

    Not a problem on a dash loom with only a few cores, but if you did the entire loom like that it could cause a problem if you heatshrunk a big bundle and then had to bend it.

    Too much neatness can be as bad as leaving it all hanging out.
     
  15. Loom tape. I’ll say no more...
     
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  16. matty

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    and a nice bit of cable lacing behind the dash.
     
  17. A lost art!
     
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  18. I still have a roll of Radiospares lacing cord, only a few British valve guitar amps(main thing I used to repair) used it so it has lasted a long time:)
    Always looks good when done properly
     
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  19. ... and just to bring the pictures back to real world latebay wiring...this is some of what I found under the insulating tape spaghetti at the back...

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    Now I get the crosslink grey/black to grey/red tail lights don't care so much where the current cones from...but the black/red (brakes) too?

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  20. DubCat

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    Shocking what some think is ok - pun intended. Mine was the same throughout which is why I decided to start from scratch.
     
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