I'm having a great deal of trouble obtaining bare tinned single strand copper wire in 30AWG or around 0.2mm diameter. I need it for perf board prototyping. 30AWG wire wrap wire works but it wastes time stripping the insulation off, plus it wastes money too. Cat5 cable core is not tinned and also too thick. RS does not have, Elephant 14 does but with their usual exorbitant postal costs, Ebay vendors who have it are in the USA and also have expensive postage. Anyone here who uses the stuff and can tell me any sources?
Tinned copper wire
Nov 02, 2017
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8 amp household fuse wire for lighting circuits? Get it from Coles/Bunnings etc.
I never even thought of that and if I had I would have assumed it was copper alloyed with all sorts of weird elements that compromised solderability. But I Googled a bit and discovered that household fusewire is usuallly just tinned Cu. Looked in fusebox and found a card of 8amp and it does indeed measure 0.2mm. Looked on RS Components again and found that tinned copper wire is there all right if you put "fuse wire" in the search box. $20 for 700mtrs which is a lifetime supply. Thanks very much!
I got a box of Z80 CTC chips by putting my hand at the wrong time at an aution. Land filln.
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