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bob88
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 Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:40 pm Post subject: Wire labels |
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Anyone out there have a good system or product for labeling wires. I'm starting to lose track of which goes where...
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:15 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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Bob,
on my last project I produced wire labels out of an Excel sheet (very
tiny font) cut it and did put it on the wire with some clear heatshrink.
Worked out fine, however there are as well nice labeling units around
(check in google for wire label printer.
Cheers Werner
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rick.mcbride(at)me.com
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 2:47 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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I've used this system from Hawk Labeling on three airplanes. With the cost of the machine and the heat shrink tubing it's certainly not the least expensive option. But it produces an exceptionally nice wire labels that looks very professional and are easy to produce and read.
http://www.hawklabeling.com/store/department.php?cPath=3_495
Rick
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flying-nut(at)cfl.rr.com
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 5:50 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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I bought white heat-shrink and wrote the info on before shrinking. Use
the ultra fine sharpie. In places where the wire was smaller than the
heated shrink I put on a couple layers of blue painters tape. I have a
couple sizes of drift pins/nail sets that I used to hold the heat shrink
while marking.
Linn
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cjhukill(at)cox.net
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:31 am Post subject: wire labels |
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I use white, blue and yellow heat shrink tubing, write the label on the tubing with a sharpie and then shrink. The writing shrinks down with the tubing and is very legible. It actually looks cool, (like how did you write so small?!?).
The color of the tubing can be coded as well. Yellow is power from CB to switch, Blue is power from switch to devise, as an example.
Using a sharpie makes a very permanent label, and if you use the correct size tubing, the label is difficult to slide off the wire, but can be slid down to the terminal after crimping. Initially shrink the label back about six inches so it won’t slide off until you final trim the wire, then move it down to the terminal.
Been doing it this way for many years and the labels still look like the day they were done.
Chris Hukill
finishing up wiring and getting ready to hang the motor
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dave.saylor.aircrafters(a
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 8:38 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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The sharpie method is quick and easy, as others are describing. Works great. One thing about every label printer I've used is that they waste a lot of tubing. I buy white tubing on a reel and just snip each piece as needed.
Dave Saylor
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Matt Dralle
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 9:59 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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At 10:40 PM 12/17/2013 Tuesday, you wrote:
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Anyone out there have a good system or product for labeling wires. I'm starting to lose track of which goes where...
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I use this product and love it:
<http://www.mattsrv8.com/users/display_log.php?user=MattsRV8&project=2273&category=9044&log=173811&row=1>http://www.mattsrv8.com/users/display_log.php?user=MattsRV8&project=2273&category=9044&log=173811&row=1
Attached are a few samples of what they look like in action.
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| Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2013 10:27 am Post subject: Re: Wire labels |
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Matt:
Your labels look great but you didn't mention what you use to do them...
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woxofswa
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Wire labels |
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I bought a gadget called a Bee3. It was pretty cheap and easy to use with nice results, but I do have probably $50 into the cartridges.
http://www.ksun.com/label-printers/labelshop/BEE3.html
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:01 am Post subject: Re: Wire labels |
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I use a BRADY BMP21 label printer that sells for around 200.00.
With it you can print wire marker sleeves that slide on the wire and shrink
with heat. They have 4 sizes and you can also buy 3 sizes of flat label
tape. The system works great.
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rleffler
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| Posted: Thu Dec 19, 2013 12:52 pm Post subject: Wire labels |
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John,
You just need a larger monitor and/or phone! :^)
Bob
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On Dec 19, 2013, at 3:37 PM, "johngoodman" <johngoodman(at)earthlink.net> wrote:
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You should be ashamed [Laughing] Putting on photos so big that we have to scroll left to right to read even one sentence.
John
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Matt Dralle
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| Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:53 am Post subject: Wire labels |
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Yeah, you're totally right, John. I feel guilty! I was going to use my normal scaled versions but the detail of the lettering wasn't good enough to show them off. So I took the full-resolution versions and just cropped down to the detail I wanted. Trouble is, those were STILL too huge! Darn that 36MP Nikon D800! 
Matt
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You should be ashamed [Laughing] Putting on photos so big that we have to scroll left to right to read even one sentence.
John
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http://www.youtube.com/MattsRV8 - Matt's RV-8 HDTV YouTube Channel
Status: 172+ Hours TTSN - Rebuilding Fuselage After Landing Mishap...
RV-6 #20916 N360EM "The Flyer"
http://www.mattsrv6.com - Matt's RV-6 Revitalization Log
Status: 180+ Hours Since Purchase - Upgrades Complete; Now In Full Flyer Mode
Matt's Livermore Airport Live ATC Stream!
Check out the live ATC stream directly from my hangar at the Livermore
Airport. Includes both Tower and Ground transmissions. Archives too!
For entertainment purposes only. http://klvk.matronics.com
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