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[*] posted on 15-1-2004 at 22:27
an inexpensive source of Nichrome Wire


anyone got one?



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[*] posted on 15-1-2004 at 22:40


If I needed some fine thin nichrome wire I would look in a wire wound resistor, potentiometer, or rheostat. If I wanted a more robust wire capable of handling some wattage, I'd look for an old toaster, electric heater, electric iron, or hot water heater element.
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[*] posted on 16-1-2004 at 03:43


Depends how much you need and the size. I often see nichrome wire on EBay for around 10 cents a foot for say 50 feet. I think its #35 or so, of course larger diamaters are more expensive

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[*] posted on 16-1-2004 at 15:13


Is there any specific size you were looking for? Maybe the project would be of assistance too. Electric matches, homemade heating apparatus, fixing the toaster?

A rocketry place would not be a bad place to start looking.
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[*] posted on 16-1-2004 at 19:32
Thanks Hodges


Thanks guys, I often read of projects that would benefit from a little (or a lot) of nichrome wire, I read about it in the old journals and it sounds as if they used to keep it in the hardware department between shovels and lightbulbs......but I had a hard time finding a retail source the one time I did an internet search (you know how it is?, sometimes you are falling all over usable links, sometimes you can't find anything but garbage to save your life!)

Anyway,.. I never thought of looking on E-Bay, now if I want to make a ketene generator, slumping furnace, annealing oven, etc,etc.




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[*] posted on 26-1-2004 at 05:52


http://www.elfa.se/elfa-bin/setpage.pl?http://www.elfa.se/el...

About USD/EUR 20 (supposing a VAT of 25%) for 200 meters of 0.3mm Kanthal D wire.

Other dimensions exist, as well: 0.5, 0.7, 1.0mm.




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