| Show Flexible Wire Handy When Experimenting If It you like to try occasional changes In your receiver or if It you want to ex- ex experiment experiment ex experiment with temporary circuit ar- ar arrangements arrangements ar arrangements or new Instruments you ou will wI find It convenient to keep anum a num number her ber of lengths of ot flexible Insulated wIre hanging from the side of your ex ex- experimental table The wires should he be b from six Inches Indies to two feet In length and their ends equipped with small spring clips of the kind that look like tie clasps Ordinary single lamp cord corll which costs about a n cent a n foot Is Ideal forthe for forthe forthe the purpose as It combines mechanical strength th with electrical utility It Is Isn isa Isn n a good Idea to bu buy a number of sIx sIx- six foot foot lengths In three or four colors of Insulation and to cut up the different colored pieces Into odd size Then when wIlen you make a n half dozen or so 50 temporary connections and the wIres cross each other or become otherwIse entangled led you will wI find it a n simple matter to trace the circuit with the aid of the he varicolored lends leads In fastening the ends of ot the wires wIns to the clips dips twist them securely around the binding screws so that the they will not fall foil out even if it the screws them themselves selves loosen Of Ot course the best hest Idea Is to solder the w wires Ires permanently In place although It Is some some- sometimes sometimes times to remove a clip and to tighten the wire directly beneath an available bInding post At any event e tape down the lie frayed ends of the Insulation near the clips with narrow slices of ordinary White adhesive tape so that hat the insulation will not run back anti and e eventually baro the wire beneath to view White nd- nd adhesive ad adhesive tape is lEI preferable to black friction tape ape because Its outer titer surface e Is not sticky and does not tend to pl pickup k kup up dirt as easily as ns the latter mute mute- nil Strong small spring pring clips wit I tenacious jaws can cnn be bought for less Jess than 5 cents each In any radio store i Keep n a box of them on hand they are extremely em I useful for making quick connections and In iii holding two ends of wire together |
