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Topic: Painting/Staining PVC cable....
Posted By: mk2_ginger_biscuit69
Subject: Painting/Staining PVC cable....
Date Posted: 19 November 2020 at 10:44pm
has anyone ever had any success making coloured sheaf PVC cable black, without it being flakey/change its ability to coil/be used as a portable product?

Got a potentially great deal on a load of yellow festoon (110v type stuff) which id like to colour black. Its only for use on my own land, but still needs to be pretty!


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Posted By: dlyxover
Date Posted: 19 November 2020 at 11:27pm
heat shrink?
or braid?

involves disassembling tho 


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Posted By: imageoven
Date Posted: 19 November 2020 at 11:56pm
Originally posted by dlyxover dlyxover wrote:

heat shrink?
or braid?

involves disassembling tho 


Festoon lamp holders are usually moulded onto the cable. I imagine the length involved would rule out heatshrink on a cost basis anyway.

If I had to colour yellow cable black, I would be looking for PVC tape wide enough to go around the cable length ways and try and do 1m + at a time.


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Posted By: csg
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 6:33am
Colour it in with a sharpie. That should keep you occupied until this crappy year is over....

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Posted By: Earplug
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 7:16am
Originally posted by csg csg wrote:

Colour it in with a sharpie. That should keep you occupied until this crappy year is over....


LOL LOL LOL Clap LOL LOL LOL


Or - surely your spray paint in a can would do it?





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Posted By: JonB67
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 8:46am
How about black vinyl loom wrap? Wont turn into a sticky mess in time either. 


Posted By: kedwardsleisure
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 10:30am
Has it got to be flexible or is it being permanently installed?

I was thinking black tyre paint. Might be dearer than the cable though!


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Posted By: APC321
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 1:52pm
Pesonally I would pass on the deal for the yellow festoon cable.

Over the years I have installed a lot of signal/speaker cable into venues.
Occasionally without my knowledge parts of the cables have been painted by the venue owner (generally water based paint). Never bothered me that much so long as being paid.

But when the time came to pull the cabling out and clean it, the parts that had been painted always looked "rough" whatever you did with it. Never threw the cable away, but kept it and re-used for uses where it could be hidden (inside roof voids for example).

I am sure that better deals will come along.


Posted By: mk2_ginger_biscuit69
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 4:00pm
yeah i gave up already. The guy has unrealistic pricing in his head. Was going to use it to light our land & a cowshed.... The tech in me cant be doing with yellow cable though, its terribly highways maintenance LOL

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''Remember that the object of a subwoofer is to enhance the output of your main speakers, not overpower it''

''Dubstep - an elongated electronic fart''


Posted By: Digbethdave
Date Posted: 20 November 2020 at 8:49pm
Would of just got some tins of graff paint, it's cheap as chips, and would work for your application 


Posted By: bitSmasher
Date Posted: 04 December 2020 at 8:59am
Vinyl Dye would work - you can buy it in cans for restoring car seats and whatever. 
Since it's a dye, not a paint, so it's as durable as the base material... but the headache is applying it! I've sprayed white power cable with blue vinyl dye as an experiment, it looked good but there was so much wastage with overspray it's not economical 


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Posted By: mk2_ginger_biscuit69
Date Posted: 04 December 2020 at 11:33pm
got a lump of chunky knotty green festoon for £15 instead.... that'll do!




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''Remember that the object of a subwoofer is to enhance the output of your main speakers, not overpower it''

''Dubstep - an elongated electronic fart''


Posted By: GAZ.
Date Posted: 05 December 2020 at 1:05am
Bargain.
Was looking at buying festoon some time ago, couldn’t find anything Worth having for sensible money.

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