DavidMil Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Ok folks: How many of you know what this is? And... How many of you have ever used one? DavidMil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarland Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Deep water fishing line spool? ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sup8pdct Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 String between two cans for communications, old style?? Wire wrapping kit. never used it myself. james 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickJock Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Yup. Built circuits using the little manual tool shown, as well as the spiffy gun. These days, I mainly just use the wire as jumpers, soldered at each end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 Used something similar to wire PCB's into a chassis (military equipment) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+MrFish Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 1 hour ago, DavidMil said: How many of you know what this is? Dental floss for people with large gaps between their teeth? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 8mm video reel. My dad took alot of film of family back in the 70's/early 80's with one. Like 2.5 mins of film per roll. I bought a projector and converted all my old videos by pointed a camcorder at the screen and playing the videos. Blast from the past Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrbrevin Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 wire-wrapping? for magnetic core memory perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClausB Posted June 28, 2021 Share Posted June 28, 2021 I grew up on point-to-point soldering. One boss made me wire wrap a prototype board. That was my first time... and my last! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 8 hours ago, Goochman said: 8mm video reel. My dad took alot of film of family back in the 70's/early 80's with one. Like 2.5 mins of film per roll. I bought a projector and converted all my old videos by pointed a camcorder at the screen and playing the videos. Blast from the past Only problem with 8 mm is that this reel is 36mm wide. I used to have a lot of 8mm moves too. I have no idea what ever happened to them. All good answers here! I'll add one. This could be a good device to to sell to the CIA. Imagine using this as a device to question prisoners. Put that up the prisoners nose and start twisting. I'll talk, I'll talk!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Well I know that it is not for camera use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) I was going to suggest it's an old reel for splicing tape for repairing/editing old movie reels, as I had a job as a projectionist while I was in college. But looking closer I see that it is only the shadow of the white insulated wire, or whatever it is, that I'm seeing and not a slight side perspective of splicing tape. Edited June 29, 2021 by Gunstar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 13 hours ago, ClausB said: I grew up on point-to-point soldering. One boss made me wire wrap a prototype board. That was my first time... and my last! I once had to go into a machine in the plant that I worked in and solder all the wire wraps as vibration in the system had caused them to start getting loose causing intermittent problems. There were hundreds of them. The soldering solved all of the problems we had with that system... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdivancic Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Oh god they taught us wire wrapping in school way back in 1984. Hatted it then, even more so now. Still have the tool somewhere… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DrVenkman Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 A few years ago, Curt Vendel posted photos of his wire-wrapped 520ST prototype he had found when he was doing his dumpster-diving and hard-core collecting thing back in the early 90’s. IIRC, he was holding the board and posing with Leonard Tramiel in more recent years. And Landon Dyer’s long-time blog Dadhacker has some great stories about the anguish and frustration of bringing those first wire wrap boards up and trying to get them to run for more than a couple minutes while they worked on driver firmware for the disk drive and bootstrapping the OS … Ugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bob1200xl Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 30 ga. Kynar wire used to wire-wrap circuits. Spent many a midnite wrapping in changes and fixes to wire-wrap boards. Used electric guns, of course. Wire came pre-stripped in every length by 1/2 inch. Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 To this day, when I do RAM (or other) upgrades, I will still wrap a couple of turns around a lifted IC leg before soldering. It makes it so much easier to keep the wire on the IC leg! As my hands have stared to shake more, this has become a much better way to do the upgrades. David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MausR Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 In the 90s i worked for a company called VERO Electronics and we sold this type of equipe. And there are rare inquiries for this as today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 (edited) I remember Vero, they did prototyping strip boards etc..Sure we sold a lot of their gear.. We also sold wire wrapping pens and obviously wire wrapping wire and IC sockets but none of it looked like the picture (as far as I remember). Edited June 30, 2021 by Mclaneinc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StickJock Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 I still remember debugging a board that turned out to have a broken wire-wrap wire right at the first turn (so it looked OK). And, of course, it was the bottom wire, with a couple more wrapped above it on the pin. It was really tricky to find as everything looked correct when tracing out all of the wires. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 The plastic spool looks very much like a 35 mm. microfilm reel (complete with the slot to start the film), though it has apparently been repurposed here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockdoc2010 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 6/29/2021 at 9:12 PM, bob1200xl said: 30 ga. Kynar wire used to wire-wrap circuits. Spent many a midnite wrapping in changes and fixes to wire-wrap boards. Used electric guns, of course. Wire came pre-stripped in every length by 1/2 inch. Bob yes it is for wire wrapping.. but it seems to work only well with square shaped pins. the wire bites onto the square edges of the pins and those pins are extra long to wrap more than one signal on them. No I don't have a punch-card as a bookmark! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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