Ron(UK) wrote in message
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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?

Gasket for the magnetron on a microwave oven. They start off like a
flat brass washer, but you can tease them out into a flat sheet of fine
wire mesh. Find a local repairer and cadge a few old ones off him.


Ron(UK)

I've now got enough brass and copper cloth to keep me in pads for years but
I will have to be aware of shedding the odd almost hair sized bits of copper
wire fraying off the edges of this cloth - worse than tin whiskers. I think
I'll selvidge the edges oif these bits of metal "cloth".


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