just a need to know question

[MikeMorgan]

hi gang,

hey i am looking to buy some of this cable in .015" and .018"..............i don't care about price, but just whether or not it is a good quality cable.
could someone please just take a look and tell me if it is good stuff?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fly-By-Wire-Control-Line-Airplane-Wire-250-FT-015-bright-7-strand-wire-30-lb-/110870578534?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19d066c566

thx

[Tim Wescott]

It sure looks good on the surface, and the www.cablestrand.com URL goes to a real company.  There's some modeler involved there, or some modeler-friendly person, that's for sure.

Note that MBS model supply will sell you cable for $29.95/1000'.  I've ordered from them (him?) and they're nice, helpful folks.

MBS Model Supply
P.O. Box 282
Auburn, KS 66402-0282
Phone: (785)256-2583
Cell: (785)221-7042

[Randy Powell]

I've got mine from McMaster-Carr. Pretty reasonable pricing, too.

[MikeMorgan]

thx guys.........my needs are very small as i am a competition free flight. the use for the cable is for the auto surfaces on these models and gets changed once a year.
a 250 foot roll will probably last me till i croak

just didn't want to by some cable that falls apart under real stress.

[Tim Wescott]

I've got 10 five-foot lengths of 0.015" line, as a consequence of miscounting the turns on my nifty "stay dry in your shop while you make control lines" fixture.  (I was in a hurry and just cut them off, instead of removing them 'nicely').

If you can use them and you want them, they're yours.  Just send me a PM with your snail-mail address.

[Bob Matiska]

The seller posted an ad in the classifieds on that other forum, offering a $2 discount and free shipping if it was ordered outside of eBay. I dropped a check in the mail last Wednesday and received my 1,000 foot roll yesterday. Not bad, Pa. to California and back in a week. The wire looks excellent and I hope to make a set of lines with it in the next few days. I'll let you know if there's a problem, but I believe other modelers have been using this brand quite successfully for a while.

Bob in NEPA

[wwwarbird]

 I get mine from Tom Morris. They come in any length you want and they even have little rings on the ends of them for your line connectors.

[Hoss Cain]

"Real model airplanes drip oil!"

LOVE IT! Gonna' steal it!