1974 XS/TX650 rebuild

[th62]

A while back I made two wiring harnesses, one for ignition, the other for lights. I wrapped both up in plastic insulation tape, not an easy job keeping the cables straight and in the same order for the harness length. I managed that reasonably well, but after wrapping the harnesses were s tiff as a board and twisted.

This morning some cloth insulation tape arrived, so I cut the old plastic stuff off and wrapped both harnesses in the cloth tape, boy what a difference. The harnesses are now quite straight, pliable and easier to thread through the frame. Big improvement. Good stuff this cloth insulation tape.

Tomorrow I'll solder on some more terminals for the rear end, shorten a couple of leads and hook everything up.

[NeiljohnUK]

Nice and neatly done, loom work can be very satisfying, I know of a local company to me that makes looms for industrial vehicles, the loose non-glue back PVC tape they use allows movement, with glue backed tape stabilising the exit points. Cloth tape is more 'period' for many vehicles, my long ago sold Series 1 Landy had cloth wrapped looms from new.

[tonyfoale]

A while back I made two wiring harnesses, one for ignition, the other for lights. I wrapped both up in plastic insulation tape, not an easy job keeping the cables straight and in the same order for the harness length. I managed that reasonably well, but after wrapping the harnesses were s tiff as a board and twisted.

I have had similar experiences. Then for a long time I used some plastic tape made for looms. It was a big improvement, although it could be difficult to use because you had to keep tension on it or it would not stay in place. For the last loom that I made I got some cloth tape. As you have found, that is the best.