Cloth Cords for WE 400 series Phones

[Babybearjs]

does anyone know if anyone had tried to reproduce the 16+ conductor cloth cords for the 400 series phones? so far I've only found 8 conductors available.  I sent olphoneworks some samples to get an idea if they could be reproduced and never heard back. any feedback on this subject??   

[sebbel]

Did you find anything regarding that. I'd be interested in that too.

[Babybearjs]

still waiting to hear from someone about this subject. I'm thinking the 25 Pair cabling is the only solution....

[sebbel]

Yeah i couldn't find anything either so i did this for now. At least it'll let me play with it and doesn't look too bad.

I used a multicoloured ribbon cable. First I split it in half and marked the end of one half with permanent marker to differentiate them. The I further split the in pairs before fitting them in a nylon sleeve. This allows the cable to be fairly flexible and round. I just tied it in the phone temporary with a tie-wrap. I reckon it doesn't look half bad.

[AE_Collector]

Coudn't you get that sleeving that would fit around a round 10 pair 24 gauge telephone cable? wouldn't be overly flexible but would be round.

Terry

[sebbel]

I probably could have.

I went with this for a few reasons. First it gave me a maximum of different colours, the gauge of the cable is that of modern phone cable so I can easily crimp RJ-11 connectors to it and last but not least I had it in the basement.

I've also had never seen a phone like this before nor the cable that would go with it so I don't know what it should look like. I just figure this would work

[Russ Kirk]

Very innovative!

[twocvbloke]

Nice solution there, and I have to admit, I haven't seen multi-coloured ribbon cables since I was a small kid at school where all the BBC Micro (or Acorn) computers were strung together with those multi coloured cables!!! 

[bingster]

You could also wrap the ribbon cable around a piece of rope or something to create a rounder, fuller looking cord.  And as for covering, there's always boot laces:

[Tom B]

Very nice Darrin - cloth covered cords. 

[AE_Collector]

Can someone make me up a set for all of my computer cords 

Terry

[Babybearjs]

wow, now thats progress. thanks for the info... now, how can we get OPW to do this???