Over the past 18 years we’ve helped our military and commercial customers find NSNs. Finding NSNs for a particular item can be challenging, especially when you don’t know the official name. Today’s “NSN Hints” will look at how to find NSN’s for wire markers. The above photo shows a typical wire marker in use.
The customer needed a way to mark electrical wires they were removing from an engine they were repairing. He thought that there should be some sort of “wire marker/wire label” he could apply and needed the NSN for wire markers. I explained that there may be multiple NSNs for marking wires and first we need to identify the official name.
In some cases government buyers will list common names along with the official names and NSNs listed in either solicitations or contract awards. By searching all of those documents you might find a match, that’s how I did it in BidLink. However even in places like FBO you might have a chance. But if you think like the military and search using one of the official names “Marker, Identification” – your chances will greatly improve. Once you’ve located one NSN and the technical characteristics match what you are looking for then you’ve found the NSN. The key is using the official name in all your searching.
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