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  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Gonna do that detail? here's something for you.
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Monday, September 25, 2023 4:17 PM

Hi, Ya'll, Tankerbuilder here!

        Just got a pleasant surprise today! I found out that the Wires used for an E.E.G are disposeable after I believe they said four uses. Now, We don't have Radio Shacks around here anymore so if you are in the same situation try this. Calmly ask the Doctor or Tech if they dispose of the wires they use and how often. Tell them you build Car, Aircraft, Ship and Armor models and they sure would look good under the hood of that custom you're building, or on the engine of that plane you're Super-Detailing! Cause that type of stuff is hard to find!

       They are 40" long, 1mm thick with insulation on.(In 12 different colors too!) and interior strands of about the thickness of a hair, and there's twenty of those little silver strands to work with! With the insulation off! No more stealing your brother or sister's old Thin wired Earphones for wire! or ripping apart old T.Vs and Radios! (Shoot how many of those things really have that much useable wire anymore, anyway!) I am sure you could find uses for the shaped molded on terminals too!

       One end is like the standard looking plug (DIN42802)for a mini-Electric device and the other end looks like a miniature 1/24 scale semi-truck (Glad Hand Twist-to-Lock)It is a circular end with a tee off to the wire for connecting the trailer brakes lights and air to! It has a wee domed center with a hole in it for sumpin else too! They are manufactured by Technomed and are described as Disposeable EEG Cup Electrodes that are Ag/AgCI coated as well(Whatever that means) and the plug I described is included too!

         By the way, on the package they are listed as a Non-Sterile device.They can be wash off twice or three times with medicinal Alchol then it's bye! They seem to be made in the Netherlands. If you or anyone you know is going to have an EEG make sure to ask them to inquire about the availability. Usually, you put the things on once, go home, sleep, and then return next day for removal. The little unit they are attached to, it comes in a wee plastic see through bag and they cover your head with a surgical disposeable cap. Who woulda thunk a detailing item would come from there.

        Well, there you go, Happy Detailing!-----Tankerbuilder!

  • Member since
    August 2005
  • From: Seattle, WA
Posted by Surface_Line on Monday, September 25, 2023 11:30 PM

Well, TB...
In my heart I know you're right, but I would just rather stay away from those situations where you have to go someplace for "a few tests".

Best regards,
Rick

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Northeast WA State
Posted by armornut on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 10:57 AM

  AG/CI not sure about CI however AG is periodic for silver....a good conductor of electric signals.

    Great tip but I usually have more important things to think about in the moment than asking for disposable leads. Not that the thought doesn't come up long after the fact.

we're modelers it's what we do

  • Member since
    April 2003
  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Tuesday, September 26, 2023 11:45 AM

AgCL is Silver Chloride

Thanks,

John

  • Member since
    April 2023
  • From: New mexico
Posted by John3M on Wednesday, September 27, 2023 5:39 PM

Hobby Lobby has a package of small scale wire in the Necklace section they are on spools they look a little smaller than 1 mm, and come in a variety of colours. My wife builds book nooks and we're constantly looking for things in miniature

  • Member since
    March 2003
  • From: Towson MD
Posted by gregbale on Thursday, September 28, 2023 2:00 PM

I still have a couple gallon-sized ziplock bags filled with wire dating all the way back to the 'Radio Shack' era -- salvaged from every crapped-out electrical appliance and device that's come my way since my teens. Any wire, any size I need, I can usually find! Big Smile

Of course, the irony is...I pretty much use various tiny sizes of fishing lead wire or solder for most of those applications, now. Just so much easier to make it 'look real'.... Confused Whistling Wink

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Thursday, September 28, 2023 2:47 PM

Het Rick;

     You don't have to go there for tests! If you or the Missus know a nurse, who works in one of those offices, you can probably get them that way. I am always curouis and when I see something like that I have to ask" What do you do with them when your done with them" If they tell me they throw them away I ask for them.That goes for Syringe tubes too, NOT THE Needles, Just the syringes.They make great plumbing lines on larger models and great lines on a tanker Deck!

  • Member since
    March 2022
  • From: Twin cities, MN
Posted by missileman2000 on Friday, September 29, 2023 7:47 AM

John3M

Hobby Lobby has a package of small scale wire in the Necklace section they are on spools they look a little smaller than 1 mm, and come in a variety of colours. My wife builds book nooks and we're constantly looking for things in miniature

 

Not only HL, but also Micheals, and just about every craft store I visit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Member since
    October 2023
Posted by The Buck Dancer on Wednesday, October 4, 2023 3:04 PM

Hi Tankerbuilder

I found that old Ethernet computer connector cords are good souces of detailing wire, and have multiple strands in different colors for spark plug wires, fuel lines, brake lines, etc. I also agree that Hobby Lobby and similar stores have a good source of variable-sized and colored wires in their jewelry-making departments. Beats the old days of my youth trying to use Mom's red sewing thread for spark plug wires!

The Buck Dancer

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