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seeking malleable non-ferrous wire
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Dave Liquorice[_2_]
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seeking malleable non-ferrous wire
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 17:15:05 -0800 (PST),
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There are also 2 commonish types of resistance wire, nichrome and
constantan. Whether they suit you I've no idea.
2 or 3 mm in dia?
I think the street vendors use an aliuminium wire. Craft or maybe flower
arranging suppliers is the place to look but expect a 500%+ markup over
the price from an industrial supplier.
Brass I think would work harden very quickly and fracture. The OP has
ruled out copper as "too weak", 2 or 3mm dia single copper (3mm dia is
more or less 7mm^2) is quite tough stuff, easy to anneal to bend and work
hardens nicely. Ali wire is softer and weaker than copper.
I think we need to know more about the application if copper is too weak.
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