Alum wire from TV's/monitors etc.

**TheHoss** · 10-05-2011, 10:07 PM

Ha, i feel dumb now. Reckon i was tired when i typed this all up. I was talkin' about the normal braided wire all throughout the tv. Dont know why i thought it was AL. Some of it is silver COLORED, but yeah, it's all copper.

Dont know why i thought that. Ha.

**eesakiwi** · 10-19-2011, 10:17 PM

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.

**scrapper321** · 10-21-2011, 07:28 PM

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

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.

**TheHoss** · 11-04-2011, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by scrapper321

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

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".

**scrapper321** · 11-04-2011, 10:58 PM

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".

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.

**eesakiwi** · 11-06-2011, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by scrapper321

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

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.