Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Lasse Langwadt <llc@fonz.dk>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: soldering enamelled wire, problems.
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 17:41:23 +0200
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <1040vj3$2trh8$1@dont-email.me>
References: <nnd$692fa5f7$09220ff6@910c70c923b84a39>
 <103h6uu$2savt$1@dont-email.me> <nnd$3c2ee3c9$5821dd46@9a3444084143502b>
 <MPG.42c77e58c64c37a898a047@news.eternal-september.org>
 <nnd$28d0bc9c$3fe53276@9a3444084143502b>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:41:23 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="88d941f2be313cfe4574ab7c4f874635";
	logging-data="3075624"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18arM4KBmOzSdSw/PrHTPvPY2FpRnFCQIY="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:tzVkrNJ8Ac6t8fl3ujN6I2rR5rA=
In-Reply-To: <nnd$28d0bc9c$3fe53276@9a3444084143502b>
Content-Language: en-US

On 6/27/25 20:29, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:
> In article <MPG.42c77e58c64c37a898a047@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Ralph Mowery  <rmowery42@charter.net> wrote:
>> In article <nnd$3c2ee3c9$5821dd46@9a3444084143502b>,
>> albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl says...
>>>
>>> I find it unlikely with house hold items to find aluminum wires.
>>>
>>> The wire I use is .25 mm. In a natural gas flame this melts
>>> readily. This must be copper or I would have not the slightest
>>> chance to solder it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I have noticed that many wires comming from China or bought on ebay is
>> copper coated aluminum (if not some other thing that is not mentioned)
> 
> Aluminium is cheaper than copper, but i doubt that copper coating
> .25 mm wire is cost effective.

you can doubt but ...

> The Chinese are so advanced that they draw aluminium wire in vacuum -
> to avoid oxidation - and then run them -ma shang- through molten
> copper, to spare a few bucks on material?

that is not how it is made, google CCA wire