heat imprint cable marker

Mar 30, 2007 2 Replies
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I know these machines have been discussed in this group before, but I can't remember what they're actually called to search for one and to figure out how much they cost. I'm talking about the machines that have a wheel onto which you set, say, "Kitchen speakers" and as you pull the cable through the machine it stamps those words onto the cable at a regular interval.



Anyone know where to get one, how much they cost, or what they're actually called?



Thanks!



E. Lee Dickinson Entertainment Design and Technology

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I think they are called:

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Those are industrial machines - perhaps there's something smaller. I have the big box of Crayola crayons. I hold one against the wire (I use mostly white cable) as I pull it from the box. That stripe usually is enough to help me ID the cable when it's actually through the holes. I think there are 78 colors, although there really are a dozen or so I can distiguish without error.

-- Bobby G.

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-- Bobby G.

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