[Boatanchors] Silver plated copper wire.

[Bill Abate]

Randy,

Why limit yourself to solid wire?  It sounds like you are looking for 
buss bar wire.  Typical mil spec stranded wire is silver plated.  Its 
readily available and teflon insulated.  At lest its more available than 
buss bar wire.

When I built  my mobile antenna loading coil, I used #10 stranded, 
teflon insulated, silver plated wire.  Got it real inexpensive on 
fleabay.  Gotta think outside the box sometimes.

73,

Bill, K3PGB

Randy Berry 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.
>  
>