On 02/12/2013 10:01, Arfa Daily wrote:
Anyone know the name or catalogue description of that flat ribbon cable,
usually grey but sometimes black, that has a sort of 'web' between the
conductors, and is tinned when you strip it ? Each individual wire is
probably about one wire-width distant from its neighbours, so a piece
say 8 conductors wide would be about the same width as a 'traditional'
ribbon of 16 conductors. It's used to interconnect boards typically -
think HK Actor or various Fender combos that have the preamp tubes on
separate sub boards. Also used with those dreadful snatch connectors
where the contacts grip the soldered wire surface so hard that you
always finish up with the tinned tails bending, which then makes them a
bitch to get back into the connector.

Anyone ?

Arfa

I call it "bugger it (forgot the damn hotmelt)" Unless you run a fillet
of hotmelt along the solder point line, at least one of the filaments
break at a solder point on moving the ribbon