So... where do you find spaghetti or the cloth/nylon tubing?
Funny thing is, I can't remember seeing it being offered anytime in the past.
Surely there are different sizes offered, not to mention voltage ratings.

~ Mitch ~

Well there is shrink wrap available, and you can always take a foot or so of romex and slip off the insulation and use that, don't know if old fashioned spagetti is still available, but I do remember it.

Radio Daze sells nylon sleeving in natural color. Too limp, I don't like it.
Antique Electronic Supply sells white fiberglass sleeving. Stiff, I like it. Sold per foot. Expensive.
Mouser and RS Electronics both sell various sleeving products made by Alpha Wire. Different materials and diameters. Minimum 100 foot spool.

I switched from AES to Mouser and RS Electronics.

I often use the insulation stripped from old wire that I have salvaged.

I do that too. I keep a catch-bin full of pieces of stripped insulation. Nice thing about them is that there's always at least one that's just the right length.

L

http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=71846

Read down, Alpha still makes the fiberglass version, distributed by Mouser and others, Newark, Allied, etc...

Chas

Thanks Everybody! - Lots of good replies.

~ Mitch ~

mcmaster-carr

http://www.mcmaster.com/#spaghetti-tubing/=ha3nvv

I'll put some in the Classifieds.

I have bought it from justradios.com
They have old style silicone rubber coated braided fiberglass or teflon. I buy the old style.
It comes in a couple sizes and it is nice stuff.
EDIT: I forgot to add it is black.

I don't see it listed on the website but it is on the excel order form near the bottom of the capacitor section on the order form to the left.

They do have a minimum order for $15 though.
So, I usually tack that and the shrink tubing on to my capacitor and resistor orders.

I have used a different type of tubing from Mcmaster-Carr. The radio I was restoring had a black rubber coated cloth type of spagetti. Mcmaster had similar stuff that replicated it nicely. They call it electrical fiberglass insulating sleeving part number 7408K42.