This brings up an interesting idea. Aluminum wire is cheap. insulation is cheap. Rather than thinking in terms of surface passivation, or magnet wire, why not bury something that looks like aluminum
Which, unfortunately, is going to result in a lot of house fires. I wuldn't allow that stuff through the door of my house. Don k4kyv _________________________________________________________________
That's right Don..... Spend more $$ on the front end and save much more on the back end. I'm pretty sure that aluminum house wiring is illegal most everywhere now.... Regards Dave Harmon NSRCA 586 K6
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY FOLLOWS -- Aluminum is by far the commonest metal on the earth's surface, about 8% of the total, compared with copper which is less than .01%. Aluminum house wiring got a b
Author: "K8RI on TowerTalk" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:04 -0500
I think you'll find most wire coming into the meter and from the meter to the main panel is now Aluminum. Of course when dealing with 200 AMP plus circuits/feeds the stuff gets pretty big. Years ago
It may well be that aluminum house wiring was easy to improperly install back in the 70s when it was popular, but that's a specific application. And, while there are significant numbers of house fire
We drift a bit off topic here.. but.. CPSC says that roughly 2 million houses (out of the 107 million in the US) were wired with aluminum wiring. http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/516.pdf It's not act
But if you could find a fairly large stash of old, unused aluminium house wire, with the insulation intact, it would make good ground radials. The plastic insulation would protect it from reaction w
One of the problems is that aluminium remains in a semi-molten state, even at cold temperatures. With steady mechanical pressure applied, it "flows" away from the pressure points, so it is impossibl
Home inspectors are taught to look for alluminum wiring and make specific remarks about it in their reports. Insurance companies often will not insure houses with aluminum wiring unless it is removed
(since they stopped using it, for all practical purposes, in 1972 or thereabouts, old is the right term.. 30 years old) "intact insulation" may be incompatible with "30 yr old stash" Probably.. Such