[Antennas] Cleaning Copper Wire Oxidation

[Charles Greene]

Jerry,

I use full strength Hydrocloric acid.  You can get it at a hardware store 
or a plumbing distributer; it is used for cleaning tile, etc.  Be very 
careful with it, as it will burn your skin, or eat through cloth.  It is 
contained in plastic well, however.  Pour a small amount in a plastic cup 
and dip your copper wires into it.  That cleans all the oxidation off the 
copper wire.  Then you need to rinse the wire well.  For wires I intend to 
solder, I also rinse them in water that I have put a teaspoon of baking 
soda in, then fresh water.

If you have enamel insulation on the wire, the acid will not strip the 
enamel off the wire.

Chas,  W1CG

At 09:39 AM 10/29/2004, you wrote:
>Hi out there,
>I am looking for some info on cleaning the oxidation off copper wire.
>I read it somewhere but can`t find it now.  I want to clean some
>multistrand copper wire for soldering.  The small article about this
>had some kind of solution to dip the wire into and "wa la", it was
>cleaned.
>Can anyone help me out?
>Jerry n6vg at lanset.com