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On Jul 28, 4:31 pm, CJT wrote:
N Cook wrote:
I'm thinking of reinforcing solder points on dropper resistors,
subjected to
vibration. Forcing a small pad of mesh over the lead and burying in
the
solder.
Other than proper suppliers for large quantities, what sort of
shops/conventional applications would use it.?
My local decent hardware shop has nothing , a local machine mart has
expanded brass sheet but that is too coarse. Would there be a
gardening/horticulture use?

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I think window screens used to be made of it, and some probably still
are.

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You may have to special order honest to goodness copper window
screening. Most nowadays is either plastic or aluminum, neither of
which solders very well, especially with leadfree solder G.

H. R.(Bob) Hofmann


There are plenty of industrial suppliers of such mesh by the square m or by
the m but I
was after more sample size for this purpose.
The pack of hobby "keepsakes & card" making sheets would be enough for 2,000
or so
little copper and brass mesh pads.
I have to give credit to the "customer service" woman ot Hobbycrafts,
Southampton.
I'd gone all around their converted horticultural greenhouse and not found
what I was after. Of course this sort of query would not come up on their
stock computer as copper wire mesh but she interpreted what I was after,
recognised a product, and directed me to card making decorations and
materials to a pack I must have passed over as it looked like sheets of
reddish brown cards , in middle distance, as the mesh is so fine.

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/