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Larry Jaques Larry Jaques is offline
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Default wire label coating

On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:52:57 -0500, the infamous "Karl Townsend"
scrawled the following:

I'm rewiring my tractor. See thread below. While I'm here, I'm taking an
extra couple hours and putting wire number labels on each end of each wire.
Plus writing down the apparent function while rewiring to include fuses.
(the tractor had one fuse stock)

Anyway, the wire labels are semi exposed. Most of them will be gone in 5 or
more years when I got trouble again. Anybody heard of a clear coat that
would seal these and hold them on?


Nope. There isn't one. The best you can do are the preprinted number
label strips made for that purpose, Karl.


Other ideas?


1) Use color-coded wire.

2) Draw up a wiring diagram/schematic.

3) Keep a list of what each wire's endpoints are. They're often easier
than tracing a wiring diagram. (I see that you're already doing this.
Good call.)

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