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Re: Electric slug fence; working copper wire

On Sun 05 Jul, ROSS E STANFORD wrote:

> >In-Reply-To: <19980704114627.A3688@cfw.com>; from Victor Torrico on 
> >Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 11:46:27AM -0400
> >
> >Quoting Victor Torrico (vtorrico@cfw.com): 
> >> 
> >> If I wanted to use copper foil I would get some solid copper wire 
> >about 3/16
> >> inches in diameter or greater, remove the insulation if it is 
> >insulated, beat
> >> it into a thin foil with a hammer, and then glue or staple the foil 
> >around
> >> the area I wished to protect. 
> >
> >Another possibility would be to flatten copper tubing with a hammer 
> >and use
> >that.

> Victor, the problem that I have with flattening copper electrical wire
> to make a tape out of it is that apparently the copper has been alloyed
> with something else to make it less malleable.

Copper becomes work-hardened ie if drawn out for wire,pipe,sheet etc. it
hardens. Solution is to heat it up (red hot?) and let it cool.
It is relatively valuable as scrap so you may be better off to sell it
and buy really thin strip or sheet, then put this on a backing.....
(haven't we been here before?)
-- 
Allan Day  Hereford HR2 7AU allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
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