Aluminum wire question

Yes actually, some aluminum wire is not the 99% aluminum 1000 series wire but the much stiffer 8xxx alloys, some with trade names, none of which I can recall at the moment, made to replace those with steel. The scrapyards don't seam to care however and just take it all as aluminum wire.

Originally Posted by Guyfromalabama

Yes actually, some aluminum wire is not the 99% aluminum 1000 series wire but the much stiffer 8xxx alloys, some with trade names, none of which I can recall at the moment, made to replace those with steel. The scrapyards don't seam to care however and just take it all as aluminum wire.

Yup as long as it's not magnetic they put it as ec otherwise it's acsr.

Originally Posted by mike1

Yup as long as it's not magnetic they put it as ec otherwise it's acsr.

ACSR isn't magnetic per se, it's that it has a steel core (the SR is 'steel reinforced'). The outer part of it is the same nonmagnetic EC wire as insulated aluminum and ACSR recovers only a little less on average than insulated Al