Euripides said: ‘Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make mad’. This might well have been brought on by an hour or so with binding wire.
Even so, there comes a time when we have to use it and the stainless steel version goes a little way towards rescuing the situation. Cooksons have one which is 0.3mm in diameter, that you can twist into a two strand cable and then anneal. This turns it black and finger soft. In use it will be best to give this two or more tightening-loops to be adjusted with pliers.
At least it is unlikely to break, just when you think you have it sorted. It will not get soldered to your work very easily and it can be dropped into pickle without turning everything red. Good for Cookies.
Providing you don’t want it hallmarked, stainless steel wire can also be annealed, stretched to straighten it, cleaned up and soldered into silver as very thin hinge pins. For instance it is in all the joints of this mobile pendant where the horizontal parts are tubes. In this case the wire used was 0.7mm. Dennis.
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