Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?



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Ian White

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe 15-25mm
wide and 1-2mm thick?

Any decent electrical wholesalers will have it

--
Alistair Riddell - BOFH
Microsoft - because god hates us

"Ian White" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?



--
Ian White

Try a supplier in Lighting conductor earthling strip

Ian White wrote:
Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the
Screwfix "galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

Is it for deterring slugs?

if so and you're not bothered what it looks like, get some small bore copper
tubing from the plumbers merchants and hammer it flat, slugs won't go near
it.....if it's not for slugs, please disregard this post.

"keith_765" wrote in message
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"Ian White" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?



--
Ian White

Try a supplier in Lighting conductor earthling strip


I would worry if a lighting conductor was only 1 to 2 mm thick

Ian White wrote:
Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

iirc screwfix do copper slate fixing tingles.

NT

wrote:
Ian White wrote:
Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

iirc screwfix do copper slate fixing tingles.

Thanks, those could be a fallback, though I'd prefer not to have to
drill and join 150mm strips end-to-end.


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Ian White

Alistair Riddell wrote:
Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

Any decent electrical wholesalers will have it

Under what name? It doesn't seem to be in any web catalogues, and the
nearest walk-in electrical wholesaler (decent or otherwise) is 60 miles
away.


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Ian White

Phil L wrote:
Ian White wrote:
Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the
Screwfix "galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

Is it for deterring slugs?

if so and you're not bothered what it looks like, get some small bore copper
tubing from the plumbers merchants and hammer it flat, slugs won't go near
it.....if it's not for slugs, please disregard this post.

No, it isn't... though it does look like an interesting method of
corralling them.


--
Ian White

"Ian White" wrote in message
...

Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but now
need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

You can order coils of copper strip in whatever width and thickness you want
from many metal stockholders. They will also cut standard flat sheets
(usually 4' x 2') into strips for you. Whether that is an economic
proposition is, however, something only you can decide.

Colin Bignell

Bus bar is what you're looking for, used in electrical distribution
systems. Or lighNing conductor....

Lightening conductor is not perforated.

Dave

In article .com,
Phil wrote:
Bus bar is what you're looking for, used in electrical distribution
systems. Or lighNing conductor....

1-2mm thick?

--
*Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article .com,
Phil wrote:
Bus bar is what you're looking for, used in electrical distribution
systems. Or lighNing conductor....

1-2mm thick?

--
*Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

1/8" dammit! Since when did Usenet go metric?

"Dave Stanton" wrote in message news

Bus bar is what you're looking for, used in electrical distribution
systems. Or lighNing conductor....

Lightening conductor is not perforated.

Dave

Quote
Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

That's what I read !!

Mr Fixit wrote:

I would worry if a lighting conductor was only 1 to 2 mm thick

It's only as thick as it is for the sake of mechanical robustness. From
an electrical point of view it could be very much thinner and still
withstand direct hits. This point is nicely made in BS 6651, where it
is stated that a 100 kA strike will only raise the temperature of
standard 25 x 3 mm down conductor by about one degree.


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Andy

wrote in message
oups.com...
Ian White wrote:
Does anyone know a source of perforated copper strip, like the Screwfix
"galvanized band" (http://tinyurl.com/onc7w) only in copper?

I have a short length in the junk-box (so it does, or did, exist) but
now need a few metres of it.

Alternatively, does anyone know a source of plain copper strip, maybe
15-25mm wide and 1-2mm thick?

iirc screwfix do copper slate fixing tingles.

NT

The last time I repaired a heavy slate roof, slates of 3/8th'' thick,
ordinary tingles or copper straps were not strong enough. I had to go to
the lighting conductor contractors for the same copper material as is being
asked for by the original poster Ian White. They sell it by the mtr in
various thickness and widths.
Some of the thinner copper banding is used for stitching damp proofing in
stone house walls and the thicker for buzz bars on traversing over head
cranes.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "keith_765"
saying something like:

Try a supplier in Lighting conductor earthling strip

Not a pretty sight, earthlings stripped.
--

Dave