"Stefek Zaba" wrote in message
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Frank Erskine wrote:

One thing I would like to find is heat-resistant blue and brown
conductors to replace burned-out/charred wires in loads of
chandelier-type theatre-foyer installations, without bits of
silicon-rubber sleeving.


How high do you want to go with the temp resistance? RS (rswww.com) have
several high-end single-core wires you might be interested in. There's a
glass-fibre-covered silicone wire, temp-rated to 150 C continuous, in a 6A
and a 15A rating. Catalogue nums 381-731 and 381-747 respectively (though
they've just changed suppliers and those particular partnums have been
replaced by others, which come without a datasheet). If that's still too
wimpy, move up to furnace-friendly PTFE-in-glassmica-in-glassbraid,
partnum 359-560 - a snip at 40 notes each 10m reel (or a bargain 150 notes
if you buy 50m) - this is the smallest guage in that range, a 1mmsq rated
to a paltry 25A ;-)

Rather less exotically - and in the blue and brown you ask for, instead of
all one 'natural' colour - is PTFE-insulated wire in various guages, such
as 365-795, 6A rated, 27notes for the 100m reel, alleging temp rating up
to 200C.

The exotics mentioned first are under Cable&Connectors - Cables -
Specialised Industrial Wires and Cables; the more useful ones (and there's
quite a range) are at Cable&Connectors - Cables - Equipment Wire, in
several subsections, most of which mentions "high temperature" or similar.

Brilliant.

HTH - and keeps your theatres safe ;-)