Source for a very short length of stainless wire?

[neverwas]

YGM (+ many thanks)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

Like the hair on a G-string.

[Dave Osborne]

Well, that's an interesting point. I don't think that piano wire (which is what guitar strings are made of) is stainless steel, no. Nonetheless, it doesn't rust in any kind of short order, so I wouldn't expect it to be any worst than, say, a chrome-plated can opener (i.e. if you don't look after it, it will rust eventually).

[Peter Parry]

I've got several hundred metres of 0.7mm Nichrome stainless wire which should do the job. You are welcome to a yard or three in return for a contribution of your choice to the RAF Benevolent Fund.

[Usenet Nutter]

It's Chriiiiiiiissssssssssssttttttmmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssss!!!

[The Natural Philosopher]

guitar string is good temporary repair.

Fishing trace is what you want tho.

[The Natural Philosopher]

ITYM Roc Chick

:-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Nickel plated high carbon steel.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No.

I still have some donated by a denizen of

That's because its half nickel and half chrome. But it wont take any real tensions.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Not at that thinness no.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:

Depends on the skill of the model shop builder.

[neverwas]

Thank you and everyone else for the offers, suggestions, cautions and entertainment. I'll start with Usenet Nutter's kind offer but keep the rest very much in mind if I c*ck that up and for other jobs.

[Andy Champ]

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But the stuff is a twisted rope. The strands will be helical.

Andy

[PeterC]

So the slices of egg will fit Pringles - new market!

[The Natural Philosopher]

I fail to see how the skill of the guy who built the shop has any bearing on the gauge of wire stocked. I am telling you, that you wont find that gauge in a model shop. That's all.

ALL piano wire with almost no exceptions, in mode;l shops, comes from here

22 thou is as small as it gets.

Whereas guitar strings are certainly available in 10 thou, usually 9 or

8 thou and I have seen 7 thou. You need something that good for the top G on a 12 string. Or its impossibly highly stressed.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember The Natural Philosopher saying something like:

Christ, but you're dull.

[neverwas]

FWIW Usenet Nutter very kindly provided some wire which has re-enabled the slicer. The wire was stiffer than the original but it certainly copes well with mushrooms, stalk and all :)