Re: Electrical Properties of Brass

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Original poster: "Jim Lux by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>

You want to look into the plating they're actually going to do.. Chromium, 
often used as a layer in plating (if not the top layer) and Nickel, also 
often used, are pretty resistive (they make NiChrome wire from them for a 
reason).  Taking a perfectly good copper conductor, then plating a layer of 
something else over it, then yet another layer of something else, might not 
be such a great idea.  Gold isn't as good a conductor as copper (about 80% 
or so, in my fuzzy recollection). It's used in electronics as a very thin 
layer because it is resistant to corrosion, and because solder "wets" it 
easily.

At 11:27 AM 4/21/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz 
><teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>
>
>Jeremy,
>        I'm sure brass will work just fine, but if you want to go "over the
>top" like me I'm looking into getting my copper primaries gold plated!
>Check out the yellow pages, there are plating companies everywhere.
>-Pete Lawrence.
>
> >
> >Original poster: "Jeremy Scott by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
><supertux1-at-yahoo-dot-com>
> >
> >Hi!
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone has any experience with
> >building primaries out of brass instead of copper?
> >I want to use brass since I'm worried about copper
> >oxidizing over time.
> >