DIY speaker cable made from cat 5 type cable

I found the cat 5 cable at Home Depot @ $0.41 per foot. It is stuff made by General Cable. I tried to look it up on their web site but could not find it. The only cat 5 I found was all pvc insulation or 3 pairs w/ FEP insulation and 1 pair with some sort of poly... type insulation. I e-mailed to ask about the type at Home Depot and hopefully they will respond.

I heard back from General Cable very quickly. It has the following constuction for the Home Depot cable:

CONSTRUCTION:
Conductor 24 AWG solid bare annealed copper
Insulation 3 pairs FEP / 1 pair Polyolefin
Pairing Varying short pair lay
Color Code Bandmarked, 4 pair Color Code
RipCord Polyester, Applied under Jacket
Jacket PVC

As can be seen the 4th pair does not have FEP insulation. Won't this degrade performance or is this OK? I'm looking at making bi-wire cables using 4 of these cables per speaker, 2 for the woofer and 2 for the mid/tweeter of my VR4jrs.

I have also checked and the Belden 1585A from Radio Shack (their # 910-1603) is no longer avaliable and the replacement cat 5 cable doesn't use FEP insulation.

Jea48, do you have enough to make cables as described in my previous comments?
Thanks

I finally got them made and my system up and running. They seem to have make the sound as if a slight veil has been lifted off of the sound.

Eterc, that cable is not the good FEP insulation type which is the type that is called for in all the DIY literature. Right below it on the catalog page are 7365K23 and 28 which are both FEP Plenum rated type which might be ok. I found some cat 5 cable at Home Depot that I thought was ok but only 3 of the 4 pairs were the FEP type insulation with the other being PVC type.