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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