Harness Lacing

[thaumaturge]

After lurking here for a bit, I'm surprised not to see anything specifically aimed at harness lacing. While tiewraps do a fair job of cleaning up an unsightly wire bundle, the old technique of nylon lacing can do a much neater job. The lack of awareness about this may be due to a diminishing source of nylon lacing material. But a trick I stumbled on years ago for small bundles is to use waxed dental floss as a lacing material.

Anybody else here have lacing experience?

Doc

[Steve Eddy]

I've dabbled a little in the past and really love it, but just don't have anything lately where it would be effective.

Used to have a bookmark to a page that illustrated all the basic techniques but I'll be damned if I can find it now.

Thanks for bringing this up!

se

[Steve Eddy]

Found it!

Wiring and Cabling: How To Lace Cable Harnesses

se

[c2cthomas]

Originally Posted by thaumaturge

Anybody else here have lacing experience?
Doc

Hi Doc,
I laced miles of harness assemblies as a depot level repair tech for U.S. Air Force. I was introduced to lacing cables as a technician in the Navy and worked on a major radar system that used tubes - predating transistors. Even the transistor and digital circuit radars had tons of laced harness assemblies tho. I think there used to be a section in the NEETS series of manuals about how to do it properly.

Hey - great link Steve!!!

[thaumaturge]

Wow, great link. I was wondering how I would go about describing how to do it.
Thanks
Doc