StillSmart

I've got a bit of cable from work, I nornally take it straight down the scap yard for some beer money but I decided to strip some, mainly to see if it's worth it as the price you get for clean copper is around £3/kg, 3 x more than if it's still got the outer cable on.

I stripped one core of a 20 meter length the 4 core 35mm cable, it took ages and a few stanley blades in the process, anyway this one core had over 3kg of copper in it and I'm thinking I could make my own copper scrubbers out of this, anyone tried it?

Does your wife knit?

LOL

Robert.

Bushman had a thread on that subject on HD it was work actually started by Mash Rookie he use very fine strand heavy welding cable and untwisted it...

Happy Stilling

FullySilenced wrote:Bushman had a thread on that subject on HD it was work actually started by Mash Rookie he use very fine strand heavy welding cable and untwisted it...

Happy Stilling

I'm not sure why,but I have bad feelings towards people able to think outside seemingly bigger boxes to myself.
I can totally see why Mash Rookie's idea is a good one.

Robert.

When I asked about using scrap copper wire on one of the other forums I was told that the ordered regularity of a scrubbie or structured mesh would produce better results than random scrap wire. I think it was the rude site though. I don't remember well, it was two or three years ago, but I think it was the number of theoretical plates per hight that would be fewer than scrubbies and so need a taller column to achieve the same results.

Now if you could knit it... Or find some way to do a regular pack.

In any case it would likely be as good as many random packings people have used.

What about braiding (AKA platting) it loosely and then forming it into a spiral?

It might be possible. Avoiding channeling would be a consideration ie keeping it very even and regular in 3D.