What Lacquers have been used on cables with succes

I do not think I want to use anything as abrasive as steel wool. I am just looking to take what ever tarnish and dirt accumulation away. Isopropyl Alcohol and maybe a special liquid cleaning solution for the particular type of metal should be appropriate.

What those solutions might be is what I am wondering.

Steel Wool or duraglit might take whatever uniformity or plating or coating off or damage it.I do not wish to scratch the metal either.

But thanks for the thought.It might work well.

Craig makes a solution that might work. I might try that.Looking into all options at the moment to see what is out there.

Another thing is Cryo. I do not think it cleans,but it might loosen the surface impurities.

Thanks!

Larry, you might also want to try lacquer thinner during the final stage of your wire prep. It's blend of solvents will dissolve most organic contaminants(polymers, oil, fingerprints, etc.) in addition to providing a wet agent to remove any dust should you need to(if you went with steel wool or another abrasive).

You could buy Tara labs air or the 2 series cables.Air or vacume your choice, love the sound of these cables in my systems.

Trelja:I was thinking of putting Heatshrink at the ends before running lacquer over them so I would not hav to introduce any need for the use of a thinner.
The cable I tried the other night I just used a run of TexFlex Teflon tubing material and left the return run bare in order to hve seperation.Then I ran it through Plastic tubing and terminated the ends.

That worked good. I will be trying alll kinds of other things that peole have suggested. The most expensive part are the terminators I have bought.

I will be ordering more wire of different gauges soon also.

I was surprised at the sound I got for the IC's and speaker cable thus far.

Thx.

JohnK:I am doing this for several reasons. First is to see what might work best in my system and secondly to come up with cost effective solutions in order not to pay the extravagant prices commercial wires cost.

I have plenty of expensive wires I can use. I am finding that the different designs I am using aer beating some of my reference wires in several area's like soundstaging and Decay of instraments.

BTW I am using Tara Labs TFA on my bass Drivers at present which is the best I have for Bi-Wiring to those drivers.