On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:40:19 +0000, Tom Woods
mused:

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 20:33:29 -0000, "noah" wrote:

I want to connect a Forward/Stop/Reverse/Speed control switch to an inverter
which is fitted to my lathe. To do this I need an eight core cable which
looks much like telephone cable with the coloured cores. Does anyone know
the proper name for this cable & is it easy to source. Thanks for looking.

network cable has 8 cores and looks like phone cable. You should have
no trouble sourcing offcuts if you only want a short length if you can
find somewhere having some network cabling done and look in the
bin/skip.

That is assuming it is low voltage.
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Regards,
Stuart.