Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.


--
R

neverwas wrote:
Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.


HI
Can't comment on the price - but the aptly-named
http://www.wires.co.uk/
does short lengths of all sorts of wire ...

Adrian

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:30:56 GMT, "neverwas"
wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.

I'm sure I have some that I got to make up some devon spinning mounts
( fishing stuff) .If you e-mail me ( amend the e-mail addy) your
details I'll send you some and you can try that .

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:24:42 +0000, Usenet Nutter
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:30:56 GMT, "neverwas"
wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.

I'm sure I have some that I got to make up some devon spinning mounts
( fishing stuff) .If you e-mail me ( amend the e-mail addy) your
details I'll send you some and you can try that .

That wasn't s'posed to show my e-mail but no matter ..

On 19 Dec, 17:30, "neverwas" wrote:
Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? *It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. *I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.

--
R

Hi,
Friendly dentist--used for making braces...
Jewellery maker...they get it from dental supply too.
D

Can't comment on the price - but the aptly-named
http://www.wires.co.uk/
does short lengths of all sorts of wire ...

Yes thanks. But so far as I could see the minimum I'd face is £10.36
(with P&P) for 50g of 0.1mm. That's roughly twice the price of a new
slicer - albeit I could then probably restring it every time it's used
for the rest of my natural

I suppose I shouldn't ask if the rest would be strong enough to deal, in
conjunction with a couple of trees on either side of the road, with the
local youfs riding unselected scooters at midnight )
--
R

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:52:00 GMT, "neverwas"
wrote:

Can't comment on the price - but the aptly-named
http://www.wires.co.uk/
does short lengths of all sorts of wire ...

Yes thanks. But so far as I could see the minimum I'd face is £10.36
(with P&P) for 50g of 0.1mm. That's roughly twice the price of a new
slicer - albeit I could then probably restring it every time it's used
for the rest of my natural

I suppose I shouldn't ask if the rest would be strong enough to deal, in
conjunction with a couple of trees on either side of the road, with the
local youfs riding unselected scooters at midnight )

You can get coils here
http://www.mchardys.co.uk/prodisp.ph...nd=5&pageind=3
it's the same stuff I can send you a sample of as I said .
Postage is about £1-2 from McHardys

neverwas wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

Would nichrome make a substitute, I still have some donated by a denizen of
this group, about 1/32" and still shiny. It looks identical to the wire in
my cheese board.

It's useful stuff, I use it to stitch cerablanket insulation inside simple
kilns.

AJH

On 19/12/2009 17:30, neverwas wrote:
Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.


Cheesewire?

http://www.legendcookshop.co.uk/cheese-wire-4250-0.html

Obviously food grade. And quite strong. And OK price (I think). Main
problem appears to be postage! Maybe you can think of a possible local
supplier such as a catering equipment shop.

--
Rod

In message
, jkn
writes

Except it won't be stainless.

Find someone who has just replaced the stays on a boat. I use the old
stays as a source of all sorts of clips etc.
--
Bill

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

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

A model shop.

Usenet Nutter wrote:

I'm sure I have some that I got to make up some devon spinning mounts
( fishing stuff) .If you e-mail me ( amend the e-mail addy) your
details I'll send you some and you can try that .

YGM (+ many thanks)
--
R

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

Violin e string would be a more classical solution, but your egg may
be from a rock chick.

Dave

The cost of a violin string might be too much to shell out for !!!

Way over your head, that one, wasn't it

Like the hair on a G-string.

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:30:56 GMT, "neverwas"
wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

I've got several hundred metres of 0.7mm Nichrome stainless wire which
should do the job. You are welcome to a yard or three in return for a
contribution of your choice to the RAF Benevolent Fund.

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:21:21 +0000, Peter Parry
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:30:56 GMT, "neverwas"
wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

I've got several hundred metres of 0.7mm Nichrome stainless wire which
should do the job. You are welcome to a yard or three in return for a
contribution of your choice to the RAF Benevolent Fund.

It's
Chriiiiiiiissssssssssssttttttmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaa sssssssssssss!!!

neverwas wrote:
Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts? It's only to
(attempt to) restring a stainless steel egg slicer, the wire in which
has just been snapped by the senior partner, so its definitely not worth
my while buying a reel. I just felt it was a shame to send an
immaculate stainless steel body to recycling.


guitar string is good temporary repair.

Fishing trace is what you want tho.

gbr1918 wrote:

Violin e string would be a more classical solution, but your egg may
be from a rock chick.

ITYM Roc Chick

:-)

andrew wrote:
neverwas wrote:

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

Would nichrome make a substitute,

No.

I still have some donated by a denizen of
this group, about 1/32" and still shiny. It looks identical to the wire in
my cheese board.


That's because its half nickel and half chrome. But it wont take any
real tensions.

It's useful stuff, I use it to stitch cerablanket insulation inside simple
kilns.

AJH

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

Any suggestions please as to where I could get ecomically just 300mm or
so of stainless steel wire - 0.1mm or thereabouts?

A model shop.

Not at that thinness no.

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

A model shop.

Not at that thinness no.

Depends on the skill of the model shop builder.

Thank you and everyone else for the offers, suggestions, cautions and
entertainment. I'll start with Usenet Nutter's kind offer but keep the
rest very much in mind if I cock that up and for other jobs.

--
R

Bill wrote:
In message
, jkn
writes

Except it won't be stainless.

Find someone who has just replaced the stays on a boat. I use the old
stays as a source of all sorts of clips etc.

waves*

But the stuff is a twisted rope. The strands will be helical.

Andy

--
* waves hand that is. Not water.

On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:54:52 +0000, Andy Champ wrote:

Bill wrote:
In message
, jkn
writes

Except it won't be stainless.

Find someone who has just replaced the stays on a boat. I use the old
stays as a source of all sorts of clips etc.

waves*

But the stuff is a twisted rope. The strands will be helical.

Andy

So the slices of egg will fit Pringles - new market!
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher
saying something like:

A model shop.
Not at that thinness no.

Depends on the skill of the model shop builder.

I fail to see how the skill of the guy who built the shop has any
bearing on the gauge of wire stocked. I am telling you, that you wont
find that gauge in a model shop. That's all.


ALL piano wire with almost no exceptions, in mode;l shops, comes from here

http://www.jperkinsdistribution.co.u...main=Materials

and 22 thou is as small as it gets.

Whereas guitar strings are certainly available in 10 thou, usually 9 or
8 thou and I have seen 7 thou. You need something that good for the top
G on a 12 string. Or its impossibly highly stressed.

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

A model shop.
Not at that thinness no.

Depends on the skill of the model shop builder.

I fail to see how the skill of the guy who built the shop has any
bearing on the gauge of wire stocked. I am telling you, that you wont
find that gauge in a model shop. That's all.

Christ, but you're dull.

I'll start with Usenet Nutter's kind offer but keep
the rest very much in mind if I cock that up and for other jobs.

FWIW Usenet Nutter very kindly provided some wire which has re-enabled
the slicer. The wire was stiffer than the original but it certainly
copes well with mushrooms, stalk and all
--
R