What I'd
really like to get my hands on is one of those little printers
that make wire numbering labels. The new ones are insanely expensive.
Why not just print them out in a small font and then stick them to the
cable with some kind of temporary glue and then put clear heatshrink over
the label and shrink it in place? (Avery self stick labels and Avery's
label software might be good to use for this.) FWIW a lot of the new cables
that I'm seeing simply print the label on a piece of plastic then then wrap
it on the cable and tie around the ends of it with lacing cord or plastic
tie wraps.
It's not the cable that's the problem to label, it's the _wires_. Try
finding an Avery label that will fit correctly on a single 24ga wire. :)
It's not that big of a deal to do without good number labels when you're
working with fairly small wire count cables, but when you've got a monster
that has more than 200 wires divided into 10+ 25 pin D-Sub connectors on
one end and a mix of 15 and 25 pin d-sub connectors along its length,
things get dicey if you can't number the wires in a way that won't
"bulge"
the harness.
g.