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Re:Wire wrap by rjsw on Saturday October 31, 2015 @05:18PM (#10484241)
I still have a wire wrap tool and a spool each of red and green wire.
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Re:Wire wrap by analog31 on Saturday October 31, 2015 @06:00PM (#10484398)
That wire is still the nicest stuff for making small modifications to printed circuit boards, because it takes solder well, but the insulation doesn't melt.

My wire wrap tool is somewhere.

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Re:Wire wrap by hga on Saturday October 31, 2015 @06:08PM (#10484423)
Yeah, on the PCBs manufactured in the '70s and '80s that I worked with in the '80s, I never saw anything but wire wrap wire used to make ECOs (Engineering Change Orders, I think that was a DEC phrase that had gone into general circulation).
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