Re: Magnet wire - best place to buy?

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>



>Original poster: "Rick Williams by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><richardwwilliams-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
>Hey Duck,
>I was informed there's a $30 respool fee.
>Anyway,...
>
>Sponsor?

Yes, check our sponsors page :) We have a few.
http://www.thegeekgroup-dot-org/sponsors2.htm

>1600+ Lbs of magnet wire?
About that, yes, it's closer to 1750 actually, 9 spools, some of them are up 
to 250Lbs each. We have some 12AWG and some 16AWG of their really 
high-temp/HV stuff for winding our next series of coils. The wire is slated 
for winding 3 12"x5' secondaries and 3 23X100" secondaries.


>
>Does the group sell magnet wire?

Unfortuantely no, that would break about 50 major laws. Though if there is a 
demand for it I may start carrying Rea as a vendor and we would sell magnet 
wire. This is the same thing we did with MMCs. While I can't sell the caps 
that CD donated to us, I CAN become a distributor for them (they like this 
kind of thing :) ).

The hard part is selling wire is a pain. I'd need to stock several sizes, 
each on a 250Lbs spool, and everyone only wants to buy 10Lbs at a time. I'd 
be lucky to break even as well. It will wait until I have enough space to 
store the stock, but I'll explore the idea. If we can sell wire in such a 
way that it's worth peoples time to buy it from US as opposed to buying it 
from somewhere else then we'll do it. Otherwise I'm not going to carry 
something that I can't sell for a LOT less than everyone else, it's a waste 
of my time and yours.


>Rick W
>SLC
>

duck




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