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Re: [TowerTalk] Copper Wire

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Copper Wire
From: Kevin Normoyle <knormoyle@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:26:16 -0700
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>/ About a year ago I went to a local audio store to buy speaker wire.  While 
/>/ there, I spotted a large spool of bare #8 stranded that was very, very 
flexible.  
/>/ It appeared to be more woven than stranded.

/Surprised it was bare. Probably used as ground wire for car audio 
installations?
Maybe what's known as "rope-stranded bare copper" 
(google) would do. Typically jacketed though?

By example

http://www.houwire.com/catalog/products.asp?catid=72

#8 has 133 strands so must be pretty flexible.

or possibly "battery cable" or "welding cable" also?

see here for a lot of info about strand types etc

http://www.anixter.com/AXECOM/AXEDocLib.nsf/(UnID)/AEC3F1A7A9D3A47F80256F250067F9AB/$file/WCTHContentsConductors.pdf

for instance ASTM B173

-kevin

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