Quote Originally Posted by Filthy View Post
hey mick, if the wire was stripped already, why did you have to scrape the ends to check? it seems to me that all my wire is either clearly copper or clearly aluminum. am i missing something?
Yes. Some wire will be "copper-colored", but is actually aluminum. You can tell by relative "weight to mass" but at that time, I hadn't had enough experience. The other way is to cut the wire and go by the color of the ends. The same is true of that cable wire around television picture tubes.