Re: Primary flat wire????

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

You should be able to find 1/8" or 1/16" x 1" bar stock at a metal supply
place.  Copper's fairly dense, and not particularly cheap as far as metals
go, but it shouldn't cost much more than the same weight of copper tubing.
McMaster-Carr: 6 foot lengths 1x1/16 $9.12, 1x1/8" $16

A place that does seamless gutters in copper will also have the stuff as
roof flashing, which I think comes as 0.021 inch nominal thickness (16
oz/square foot), ( found it online at $67.49 roll for 14"x10ft roll mail
order from Aubuchon Hardware or "DoitBest")


Also, that price sounds awfully like some specialized thick foil product.


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Subject: Primary flat wire????


 > Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H by way of Terry Fritz
<teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <daniel.h.mccauley-at-lmco-dot-com>
 >
 >
 > To save some space, I'd like to build a primary using flat ribbon type
 > wire???
 >
 > I think both Ed Wingate and Terry Blake had used bronze or copper
 > weatherstripping.
 > Anyone have a cheap source for this stuff.  So far, the places I looked at
 > were sell 10mils, 1" wide
 > stripping in 100 foot rolls for $200.00 or so.
 >
 > Dan
 >
 >