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Re: bad magnet wire seller
Original poster: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net>
Tesla list wrote:
>
> Original poster: "Steven Ward" <srward16-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> I must second this! I bought some wire from them and it was of the worst
> quality i have ever seen. I dont know if i recieved the exact length i was
> supposed to. But, the enamel on the wire was easily scraped off and
> sometimes just cracked from bending the wire. Not really what we want for
> out high performance TC!
>
> Steve Ward
Sounds like old wire. I have a bunch of formvar wire here, some over
50 years old. Some (but not all) of the stuff behaves exactly as you
describe.
Ed