[Boatanchors] Silver plated copper wire.

[Rob Atkinson]

I think Georgia Copper sells unenamelled bare copper wire.

Another thing I do in these sorts of situations is either buy thin
copper tubing, or cut thin strips of copper from strap, but you have
to have the copper strap and snips for that.


73

Rob
K5UJ


On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 12:53 AM Randy Berry <randyn3lrx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for bare silver plated copper wire, like they use for coil
> form inductors and such. I'm not having any luck on fleabay or
> crimazon. All I can seem to find there is wire intended for arts and
> crafts and jewelry. and I don't need a whole lot of it. Only a few
> feet (if that) Is that good enough?
>
> It's going to be the hookup wire for a 600 watt DC to light dummy
> load. I don't want the hassle with enamel wire and having to clean the
> enamel off on such short pieces. I figure around 16 or 18 ga will do.
> I'd even settle for 12 if I had to but I think that's a bit of an
> overkill. I thought I had some that I scrapped from an old broken
> ceramic coil form, but to hell if I can find it.
>