In rec.crafts.metalworking on 2010-12-20 Bob La Londe wrote:
"Louis Ohland" ... wrote
Does anyone know where I can buy RJ12 telephone cables with solid wire?

I soldered the scarce chinese scale cables to the scale electronics.
Unfortunately, I did not add an external clamp for the cable next to the
electronics, and my display unit is displaying garbage.

From past experience, it's too darned expensive to buy the chinese DRO
cables by themselves. Worse, the conductors are the next to impossible to
solder stranded wire.

http://www.yadro.de/digital-scale/mo...odding.html#a2

My quick solder job was to simply unfold the flattened conductors from the
small (RJ11?) end, and solder them to the PCB traces. This probably would
have been good enough, except there's no support for the connector
block... Enough flexing, and things get odd.

An RJ-12 is the same physical size as an RJ-11 telephone base cord plug, but
has 6 pins instead of 4.

If that is what you are talking about...
[snip other comments re plugs etc]

Ohland wants to solder solid wires of a cable instead of stranded
wires to contacts on a digital caliper's PC board. The RJ12 (or
whatever) connector is at the other end of the cable and plugs into an
ordinary matching socket. Ie, the RJ12 connector is not a concern,
the problem is getting the wires connected to the caliper's PCB.
Ohland implies that an expensive commercial cable is available with
RJ12 on one end and a plug to match the caliper contacts at the other
end; he wants to avoid buying the expensive cable.

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jiw