Alum wire from TV's/monitors etc.

NO It's not nickel coated it's tin coated

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Originally Posted by eesakiwi

That braided copper wire is Nickel coated copper wire braid.

Its useful as a 'solder sucker' if you put flux on it & then use it to suck up molten solder on a circuit board.
It'll suck solder up about a 1/4 to 1/2 inch. Once its done that, just snip that bit off & keep using it.
Thats a old electricians trick.

I have found a few TVs with Ali degaussing cable, not for a while though.

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Are the deqaussing cables always copper, I've been wrestling with that concept. I've read different articles, some say yes, some say no.

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Originally Posted by jonnyjeb

Are the deqaussing cables always copper, I've been wrestling with that concept. I've read different articles, some say yes, some say no.

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Most I've done are copper but I've encountered a few that were copper plated aluminum. If you hit it with a file or cut it in half the inside is solid white aluminum.

Ya ive been hitting an alu streek lately especially with larger tvs and microwaves. the las two big tvs had alu degausing cables ad yesterday a big Samsung microwave hade a huge transformer in it, busted it open it was alu also.

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Are the deqaussing cables always copper,

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See my picture up in #13 post, those were some alum. degaussing cables I pulled out and stripped.

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Originally Posted by scrapper321

NO It's not nickel coated it's tin coated

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Same thing. But too be more accurate, YES it is nickel coated. Some yards call it "white copper", "tinned copper". Those are nick names. It's all, "Nickel coated copper".

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Originally Posted by TheHoss

Same thing. But too be more accurate, YES it is nickel coated. Some yards call it "white copper", "tinned copper". Those are nick names. It's all, "Nickel coated copper".

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NO it's not the same thing. its not just nick names. Tinned copper wire has a tin coating. Depending on the use for the wire it can also have a nickel or a silver coat.

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Originally Posted by scrapper321

NO It's not nickel coated it's tin coated

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In hindsite, I actually don't know where I got the idea it was nickle coated..... No idea at all....

I think I must have just thought it & then said it enough times for me to believe it. Stumped.

Whats more, I cut a whole bunch of nice thick 'Copper wire' from the back of a kitchen stove a while ago, it had soft insulation & a nice soft 'rubbery spring' to it.
I was thinking it was copper wire, of a fine strand, 'nickle coated' ("haha" now if you want...).

It turned out to be Nonmagnetic Stainless Steel wire..........

Hell, I even convinced the scrapmetal dealer....

I do remember him saying something about the "Coated copper wire is supposed to go in with the Bronze".
Makes sense now.

Since then I have figured out that if you cut the wire at a steep as angle as possible, it makes the cross section a lot larger & a lot easyer to see if its Copper..

The older I get, the more I know I don't know.

When we admit errors I think we demonstate maturity, thanks for sharing, Mike.