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Re: Magnet Wire



Subject:  Re: Magnet Wire
  Date:   Sat, 10 May 1997 19:10:53 +0500
  From:   "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
    To:   Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


On Thu, 08 May 1997 17:03:00 EDT "Mad Coile{"
<ts5815-at-devrycols.edu> wrote:

> Anybody have any good sources of magnet wire? The only place I can find
> any 18 -24 awg magnet wire that is longer than a few hundred feet is the
> catalog Mouser. I know there must be more sources of magnet wire.
 
Ouch Mouser is notoriously expensive! Aside from HAM swap meets, you
can look for local electronics surplus stores. About two weeks ago I 
visited a local electronics surplus store and bought a 25 lb. spool
of #20 awg formavor coated copper wire for $10.00 U.S. . I usualy get 
most of my wire from the trash. Look for mercury vapor lamp ballasts 
and old T.V. and radio power transformers, all of them have large 
primaries of #28-#8 awg wire usualy of good length. I have started 
saving the degausing coils on color T.V.s too, these have several 
hundred feet of aluminum wire of #28-#20 awg. nice for experimenting 
with smaller coils and great for R.F. chokes .


                               Sincerely

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