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Soldering to perfboard - where to find tinned copper wire?
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Cnoob:
I found some solid core insulated wire at CPC- Farnell.
https://cpc.farnell.com/search?st=solid%20core%20tinned%20wire
Uninsulated tinned copper wire.
https://cpc.farnell.com/search?st=tinned%20copper%20wire


The insulated is cheaper which I prefer to use. If it's for high current use then uninsulated maybe more suitable.
StillTrying:
I use old 4 x solid cores wired telephone cable, with the option to leave the insulation on for longer lengths, I've collected loads of it over the years!
vk6zgo:
It is traditionally called "Tinned Copper Wire" in Oz, but it seems it has other names in various countries.
One is "fuse wire" (when you look at TCW, it looks exactly like the stuff we used to keep a card of in the "meter box" for repairing manually loaded fuse holders, albeit of a larger variety of sizes.)
BurningTantalum:
I too have been looking for this product recently. I have had a reel of it for decades and thought that it would 'see me out' but sadly I am coming to the end of it. I always knew it as 'BTC' (bright tinned copper) in the UK. I assumed that I would find reels of it from China but it doesn't seem to be available except by the metre in rolls and is not particularly cheap.
Somehow I have soldered a kilogram of the stuff in the past few decades...
BT
Moriambar:

--- Quote from: BurningTantalum on February 18, 2019, 01:18:12 pm ---I too have been looking for this product recently. I have had a reel of it for decades and thought that it would 'see me out' but sadly I am coming to the end of it. I always knew it as 'BTC' (bright tinned copper) in the UK. I assumed that I would find reels of it from China but it doesn't seem to be available except by the metre in rolls and is not particularly cheap.
Somehow I have soldered a kilogram of the stuff in the past few decades...
BT

--- End quote ---
Right? I tried "tinned copper wire" on ebay/aliexpress but without any success too...
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