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04-13-2012, 10:16 PM
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535??? Thats just weird! The word I was looking for was drawl. We would drawl solid #3 down to just about any size needed.
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04-13-2012, 10:30 PM
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535??? Thats just weird! The word I was looking for was drawl. We would drawl solid #3 down to just about any size needed.
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Draw, not drawl.
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04-13-2012, 10:35 PM
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No, the word was drawl. Shrinking large wire into a smaller wire with a pre-press into the size you want. Then it went into a spooler and got put on a reel. Yeah...drawl that was what it was called. Not a typo, weird word I admit but thats what it was called.
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04-13-2012, 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by TimChaput69;[URL="tel:690002"
690002[/url]]No, the word was drawl. Shrinking large wire into a smaller wire with a pre-press into the size you want. Then it went into a spooler and got put on a reel. Yeah...drawl that was what it was called. Not a typo, weird word I admit but thats what it was called.
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I don't think so
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04-13-2012, 11:01 PM
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Quote:
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No, the word was drawl. Shrinking large wire into a smaller wire with a pre-press into the size you want. Then it went into a spooler and got put on a reel. Yeah...drawl that was what it was called. Not a typo, weird word I admit but thats what it was called.
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I'm not saying that isn't what it was called wherever you were(and i'm not trying to be a jerk!) but doing that is called 'drawing' wire. To draw, past tense drawn. A drawl is a way of speaking, as in 'a southern drawl' 
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04-13-2012, 11:07 PM
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Yep when I came out of the service i was told i had a drawl, cause of all the southern guys i served with. Anyway we called it "drawl" correct or not that was the term. But in retrospect draw does sound better, but right now with a great fire and some friends around.......I'm gonna use drawl cause that sound good!! Good night y'all! !
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04-14-2012, 03:55 PM
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535 mcm
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Actually it would be 535.3 kcmil (mcm).
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04-14-2012, 04:23 PM
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Actually it would be 535.3 kcmil (mcm).
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There's also 343, 777, 1111, and many more.
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04-14-2012, 08:00 PM
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There's also 343, 777, 1111, and many more.
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But they almost have a ".x" as part of the size.
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04-14-2012, 08:44 PM
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There's also 343, 777, 1111, and many more.
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I know that DLO cable has some wacky sizes too. Don't know any of them off the top of my head.
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04-14-2012, 08:51 PM
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I have used 9/4 and 7/3 both direct burial. Our signal department uses it. No particular reason I suppose, It is solid copper and has a copper jacket fiberglass sheath and a hardish pvc outer sheath. Think wire bending tools and rubber mallets to make it do what you want it to do.
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04-14-2012, 08:55 PM
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I know that DLO cable has some wacky sizes too. Don't know any of them off the top of my head.
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those odd ball sizes on this page are for DLO
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04-16-2012, 07:21 PM
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Sure. For special uses.
Magnet wire, for winding motors, comes in odd gauge sizes. Even half gauge sizes.
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Half gauge, that's wild!
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