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Subject: Wire Strength
From: "Geoffrey" gmvoeth@...........
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 23:30:32 -0700


Does anyone understand wire strength ?

I will look at this way.

HY80 steel has the ability to stand up to
80,000 lb/in^2 so you just translate
say the area of a given steel wire
what it would be if whatever weight
was on that area as translated to
the area of the wire guage then if it is
like 1/2 the yield strength 40,000 lb/in^2 you should be ok ??

5 lb on a 28GA wire might translate to
Diameter => 2*SQR(weight/(PI * 40000))
Where HY80 type steel is the wire steel ?
Maybe 28 or less AWG steel wire. (you need an AWG table)

If it were piano wire it might be HY160
or something better than plain steel ?

IS there such a thing as stainless steel wire
or something that will not corrode/rust ?

Does any of that sound right ?

I think like a LAYMAN and not Lehman :-)

Thanks ahead of time,
geoff

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