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Conference vmszoo::rc

Title:	Welcome To The Radio Control Conference
Notice:	dir's in 11, who's who in 4, sales in 6, auctions 19
Moderator:	VMSSG::FRIEDRICHS

Created:	Tue Jan 13 1987
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1706
Total number of notes:	27193

1424.0. "Music wire sway bars for an 1/8 scale gas car" by LATNCY::MORGAN (Brad Morgan) Fri May 08 1992 18:57

I'm in need of a more varied collection of sway bars for an 1/8 scale gas car.

I'm using music wire and in the U.S. the popular sizes (in inches) are:

1/16	.062
5/64	.078
3/32	.093
1/8	.125

I'd like to find something between .078 and .093 and a couple between .093 and
.125.

Is music wire sold in Europe in metric sizes?  If so, what are the increments?

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1424.1 1/2 wire size KAY::FISHER The higher, the fewer Mon May 11 1992 10:42 19

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1424.1	1/2 wire size	KAY::FISHER	The higher, the fewer	`Mon May 11 1992 10:42`	19
	>I'd like to find something between .078 and .093 and a couple between .093 and >.125. This isn't the answer your looking for Brad but consider this. Music wire isn't all that strong - you can mount the .093 in a drill and hold some emory cloth in one hand and sand it down to a half size smaller. It would be hard to get an exact diameter along the whole length and you could never use it for something like passing thru a precision hole with fluid pressure on one side (a shock strut) but you can easily make wire smaller. When ever I have a Stabilator pin that won't easily go thru a brass tube I just sand it till it does. Mostly I sand them to ruff them up so they stick better to epoxy or polyester resin. Bye --+-- Kay R. Fisher \| ---------------O--------------- ################################################################################

>I'd like to find something between .078 and .093 and a couple between .093 and
>.125.

This isn't the answer your looking for Brad but consider this.
Music wire isn't all that strong - you can mount the .093 in a drill
and hold some emory cloth in one hand and sand it down to a half
size smaller.  It would be hard to get an exact diameter along the
whole length and you could never use it for something like passing
thru a precision hole with fluid pressure on one side (a shock strut)
but you can easily make wire smaller.  When ever I have a Stabilator
pin that won't easily go thru a brass tube I just sand it till it does.
Mostly I sand them to ruff them up so they stick better to epoxy or
polyester resin.

Bye          --+--
Kay R. Fisher  |
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