Silver wire is usually Aluminum or steel...and yes it is a pain to solder.


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Posted by Jim K on October 25, 1999 at 00:05:51:

In Reply to: Re: What gauge wire for controls posted by immorta on October 23, 1999 at 19:34:50:

: I'm not sure what the gauge is but I used a mixture of old wire scavanged from the inside of an old cabinet and speaker type wire, it works fine.

: I would say go with whatever you can find the cheapest, but the comment about using different colours is a good one, or label them as you go, it gets pretty messy.

: Another thing I noticed is that some of the wire I scavanged was a silver colour instead of a copper colour, this stuff is much harder to solder for some reason. Stick to the copper stuff, especially if you're not good at soldering, the silver stuff is a real pain.

: http://www.chariot.net.au/~immorta/bytes.html




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