x-"Tim Williams" wrote in message ...
x- Was melting down some #0 or so aluminum wire scraps yesterday, what exactly
x- is it? I cast a big long ingot of it and I can just about wrap the damn
x- thing around a tree it's so soft! :^)
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x- I'm guessing something ductile, anything special to help with conductivity?
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x- Tim

From what I have been told its esentially pure aluminum. Usually worth
the effort to reclaim if you don';t mind all the dross.

The power company here has a huge dumpster outside the one rural field
station about 8 miles from me, and the trucks oftem dump all kindsof
stuff in it. Its not unusual to find a couple of nice lengths of that
really heavy about 3/4-1" think stranded bare aluminum wire, 3 or 4
feet long as wellas lots of smaller pieces and occasionally those
compression connectors they use to join it together in overhead lines,
which is about 2" in diameter, and 24" long made of solid aluminum
except for the hole into which the wire is placed fro crimping.

Lots of porcelain insulators (great for electric fencing at corners
etc) and these long fiberglass rods about 5/8" diam and maybe 18 feet
long with forged galvanized eyes on the ends. Lengths of power poles
just right for fencing needs, and always a ton of guy wire and
anchors.
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