VERO-WIRE
Vero is now Electrospeed
I am advised that Electrospeed has been taken over by RS (Radio Spares) who are not going to supply this wiring system.

Click image for link to Electrospeed.

This picture shows the Verowire Pen, a Comb and a reel of wire.

The wire is available in various colours.

Click on the picture to get to the Electrospeed Website.
Select Eurocard, Backplanes and PCBs then look for
Verowire under the SUB-GROUP heading.

Tip: People damage their pens by pulling on the wire with the pen and soldering at the same time. The heat goes up the wire and cuts a groove in the plastic pen. You now have a scrap pen. All you can do is to try to file away the slot in the pen tip that you have created but it is never the same again and it usually gets binned in frustration. Use a scapel to cut the wire away from the pen before even thinking of soldering.

I remember asking the Vero rep if there was any chance of a metal, professional, pen but it looks like it never got off the drawing board. Even a metal tip would have helped. Serious people with the proper equipment could modify a pen with a stainless steel tube in the tip.

In creating these few pages there is no desire for monetory gain; they are just for interest in the Verowire system and to offer assistance to those who may care to use it for developing circuit boards either for experiment or small production runs where the cost of making a PCB is rather expensive.

It would appear that this information is just historical now.
Another good idea gone to the wall!

Update, July 2002.

Pens are stock # 79-1732G
Pink wire is stock # 79-1737D

Combs are stock # 79-1735C

I have been advised that RS Components bought Electrospeed and
will not supply Vero-Wire.