1.5mm2 Thinwall Brown/Pink Cable

[revilla]

Does anyone know anywhere that actually sells 1.5mm2 Thinwall PVC cable in Brown/Pink?

I've tried all the "usual suspects" in the UK. For making up looms I usually buy most of my wire from http://shop.kabelknecht.de/en_GB in Germany as they carry quality cable in a lot of sizes for most colour combinations, but they don't carry 1.5mm2.

I know people will say "you can just use 2mm2" and that's what I've done in the past, it may be electrically OK but it's beyond spec for some of the crimp terminals I'm using and doesn't crimp very well. I'm a perfectionist.

I'd settle from Brown/Blue if anywhere has that instead of Brown/Pink. I do really want my looms to be right as per the designs, but in the EU3 K engine loom there's a Brown/Blue from the MFRU that branches out into Brown/Pink main relay switched supplies, so Brown/Blue would be consistent.

Thanks (and Merry Christmas)!

Andrew

[K7 VCT]

Hi Andrew, Happy Christmas.

You could try vehiclewiringproducts.co.uk in Derbyshire.

They have been very useful to me when making repairs to an old Morgan F4.

 

They could be able to help out.

 

 

[K7 VCT]

Or Autosparks.co.uk

Again very useful, they supply looms and cables.

 

Best of luck

 

Julian

[revilla]

Hi Julian,

VWP seem to jump from 1.0mm2 to 2.0mm2 and don't do anything at all in 1.5mm2. Autosparks appear to be the same.

Kojaycat (who specialise in motorcycle looms) seem to say on their website that they can get custom colour combinations made to order with a few days lead time, but you have to buy 100m reels.

To be honest, a 100m reel isn't really a big issue as I was going to order 20m for the current batch of looms alone and I think I'll be making a few more batches at some time or another, so if the price is decent I'll probably go for it.

Every other combination of size, colour and tracer I've been able to source though either Kabelknecht or Autosparks. Kabelknecht do most combinations in 10m hanks and Autosparks sell the remainder by the metre.

Thanks,

Andrew

[K7 VCT]

No worries, strange 1.5mm is missing, I would have thought it's a standard size.

 

Cheers julian

[rj]

Merry Christmas

 

Have you considered asking our friend at Kabelknocht if he'd be able to supply it?

 

 

[revilla]

Merry Christmas to you too Regin!

 

Yes I've already sent emails to both Kabelknecht and Kojaycat. Will see what they say. They've probably got better things to do today though :)

[7 wonders of the world]

These guys do brown/blue.....

https://www.almsolutions.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=853

 

[revilla]

So they do, thank you. On 30m rolls too which is better than 50. I think I'll use Brown/Blue for this batch.

[revilla]

Just to add to my woes ... my regular supplier http://shop.kabelknecht.de/en_GB will no longer ship to the UK since Brexit.

From what I understand the UK government insists on collecting VAT at the poibt of sale for small transactions in Europe shipping to the UK which required EU sellers to register for UK VAT and a lot of them just don't want the hassle. I'm not sure that's the situation in this case as I can't get a reply to an email from them either.

I think I've managed to find UK alternatives for everything I need for now, but it has meant shopping around and ordering from multiple suppliers, some of which only ship on 100m reels.

[7 wonders of the world]

Could ALM not help you..?

[revilla]

I've got most of what I need from ALM, most of the rest from ECS and the last couple of bits being made to order, supplied on 100m reels.

[rj]

I could order it for you and ship to the UK

[revilla]

Thanks Regin, I appreciate the kind offer but I've got everything I need on order from UK sources now so I should be OK for the current batch.

[rj]

No problem Andrew. Just give a shout if you change your mind.

[aerobod - near CYYC]

Probably an opportunity for enterprising companies to setup post office boxes in Calais to receive goods from EU suppliers and hold them for nominal fees so one can do a quick day trip from the UK to pick up the items.

We have this sort of arrangement in US border towns for Canadian purchasers of US goods, where the US suppliers aren't set up to handle cross-border shipping and the associated paperwork / taxes / duties.

Usually worth the hassle for hard to find items that are $500 or more, to use this shipping method.