air lines

[blackbeard]

looking for the coiled air lines

[Rusty92]

If you go to a hardware store and get some wire in the color of your choice, you can wrap it around a piece of sprue to coil it up. This would be a good choice if you plan on doing a lot, and cheaper also.

[blackbeard]

do you know what size wire I would need

[Rusty92]

I cannot remember for sure. Usually I just eyeball things, since sometimes taking the actual thing and scaling it down doesn’t always create the best results. 

[blackbeard]

true

[John Pol]

take the wire from inside a phone cord can also use for the coiled air lines

[blackbeard]

Thank you for the advice

[Jim B]

Be careful using telephone wire as some of it is stranded & not solid wire.  Stranded wire will work well for chassis air lines, but will not hold a tight coil.  If you need a tight coil (like for behind the cab), you're better off using Cat5 cable which is the cable that is used to connect a computer to a modem.  The connector looks like the one on a phone cord (RJ11), but it's a lot bigger (RJ45).

[Casey]

 

[blackbeard]

thank you all for your help

[vintagerpm]

If you want pre-made lines, check out:

American Industrial Truck Models

Auslowe Model Accessories

[blackbeard]

thank you very much for your help

[RipVan]

I am going to try 26 gauge PTFE (teflon) stranded wire for suzie coils.  The outside diameter is .039 inches which would be .975 at 1/25 - very close to the full sized 7/8 air hoses I have seen offered online.

It may not hold as tight a coil but should be more easily stretched to connect to a trailer.

The problem with most types of wire is that it has the same outside diameter regardless of the gauge of the conductor inside.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 25, 2019 by RipVan