UK source for ordering tinned copper stranded wire with main and tracer coloured insulation?

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crewejd

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My ad41's have been eating their wiring harnesses, and I am unable to find an option available which I could afford for a new/used entire engine harness.
It's the one that ends in a 16 pin round plug if that makes sense?

I thought, maybe I could repair the original one myself....
I am trying to repair a wiring harness on my AD41's but am unable to find the variety of colour permutations in local (to UK) suppliers. Specifically, I am looking for just a few metres of each of the following:
Red with blue tracer,
Red with yellow tracer,
Red with green tracer,
White with blue tracer
White with Brown tracer.
Specifically, the wire needs to be 1.5 sq mm in area and stranded, so it is relatively flexible. Also it needs to be tinned as it's going near the sea...
I could get them in the USA but postage, taxes and tarriffs make these out of the question economically.
Any ideas gladly accepted and thanks for reading this.
Cheers,
 
If you can't find the exact colour coding, why not just buy the right spec cable but in different colours? Put a label on one end if you are worried about future maintenance.
 
The original Volvo harness (and indeed pretty much every other boat engine wiring harness in existence) did not use tinned wire.

If your crimps are good it’s unnecessary.
 
jakew009 said:
The original Volvo harness (and indeed pretty much every other boat engine wiring harness in existence) did not use tinned wire.

If your crimps are good it’s unnecessary.
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Spot on. My harnesses are 35 years old, no tinning and in perfect condition. Same as the rest of the original wiring.

Had to smile when i read the OP "Also it needs to be tinned as it's going near the sea..." If your engine harness is near the sea you have bigger concerns then whether it's tinned or not. ;)
 
crewejd said:
My ad41's have been eating their wiring harnesses, and I am unable to find an option available which I could afford for a new/used entire engine harness.
It's the one that ends in a 16 pin round plug if that makes sense?

I thought, maybe I could repair the original one myself....
I am trying to repair a wiring harness on my AD41's but am unable to find the variety of colour permutations in local (to UK) suppliers. Specifically, I am looking for just a few metres of each of the following:
Red with blue tracer,
Red with yellow tracer,
Red with green tracer,
White with blue tracer
White with Brown tracer.
Specifically, the wire needs to be 1.5 sq mm in area and stranded, so it is relatively flexible. Also it needs to be tinned as it's going near the sea...
I could get them in the USA but postage, taxes and tarriffs make these out of the question economically.
Any ideas gladly accepted and thanks for reading this.
Cheers,
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There is no need for tinned cable. Are you sure it's all 1.5mmsq ?

You should be able to get all of the colours you need, by the meter, from here ; https://www.carbuilder.com/

If there is an odd colour that they don't keep, use something similar and document it.
 
Thankyou all for your input. Very helpful indeed! Totally get the point about dipping the wiring into the sea!!
I also take on board the idea that tinned is not necessary. I have observed the strands on older cabling in the boat has turned black along the entire length of some of the stranded wire, so will use grease-filled heat shrinking crimps throughout. As said above, I am substituting the unobtainable colour combos with something that makes logical sense to me when wiring these up.
Many thanks to all!!
 
I'm a bit of a bodger, so I would buy one roll of good electrically appropriate wire and then colour code it with short sections of cut plastic drinking straw slipped over it in multiple locations. These are available in a wide range of single colour and multi-coloured...er...colours, or at least they are in Taiwan.

Labels come off so I dont think they would be optimal on their own, but one could perhaps slide labels inside drinking straw sections, for a bit of yuppie belt-and-red-braces.
 
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