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Old 06-16-2010, 05:31 PM
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Aloha,

I am trying to find a chart of different sizes of wire diameter.

I have a spool of stainless aircraft safety wire .032 in diameter.

What I'm looking for is an end on chart of wire diameters. Little dots to bigger dots with the diameter size below for comparison.

So far I haven't been able to find one. I've pretty much found almost every other kind of chart, but not one like what I'm looking for.

If any of you have ideas where to lookd, I'd really appreciate it.

Thank You in advance.

I don't think there's anything you guys Don't know or how to find or do.
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I do not know what aircraft safety wire is but, my suggestion is to go to a store that only deals in commercial electrical things i.e. wire, lighting fixtures, panel boxes, meter boxes, etc and they may be able to point you in the right direction. My next question is what does this have to do with concealed carry?

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hope this helps McMaster-Carr
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Aloha,

Thank You, I knew someone could steer me in the right direction.

CCW was ans Ooops. I forgot where in the forum I was.

Safety wire is used to keep nuts and bolts locked together so the nut/bold does not loosen in flight due to vibrations and cause bad things to happen.

I find living in Hawaii Stainless wire is great stuff in a heavy salted air environment. Regular wire or even galvanized wire rusts.

I also use a lot of stainless nylock nuts and bolts.

All this helps when making gun or home related
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Aloha,

The CCW was an Ooops, I forgot where in the forum I was at.

Safety wire is used on aircraft to keep nuts and bolts locked together so they don't come apart in flight because of aircraft vibrations.

I live close enough to the ocean that we have salt on everything. Everything either rusts or corrodes.

I use a lot of stainless fasteners(yes, they're expensive) when I make things or home repairs. Especially when I may have a Need to take things apart later for repairs. Regular wire will start to rust as soon as you open the pakage(litterally). So, for home projects requiting wire, I'm converting to stainless. I also use a lot of self locking nuts in my projects. Looks a lot nicer too.

When I build my new reloading bench, it's going to have all stainless nuts and bolts.

BTW, Golden Rods and silicone impregnated gun socks work well here near the ocean in a gun safe. Just wipe the guns down Before you put it away.
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Machinery's Handbook will give gage and diameter of solid or stranded wire.
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Hmmm, don't want to offend anyone , but that pic above is waaay off to the small side on my monitor. Pictures on a computer screen are a very poor way to do this anyway because a 19" monitor running 1024 x768 will look a very different size than a 19" running 1920x1080, to do it properly the person who created the picture would have to post the proper viewing resolution for the picture. The scale 72 pixels = 1 inch is a web standard 72dpi , but depending on the browser and version it may or may not display correctly and if you download it and open it in an image viewer it will be different again , you need to size the pic so that the 1 inch in the right column is actually 1 inch on your screen.

To get very close you need to size the picture on your monitor so that 2 gauge wire is .250" ,fractional drill bit is 1/4" , hold the butt of a 1/4" drill bit over the 2 gauge and it should look like a fine pencil line drawn around the base of the bit, that would be very close.

The pic on this wiki page is very close on my monitor (1920x1080) it will look huge on 1024x768.

File:Wire gauge (PSF).png - Wikimedia Commons

If you click the pic it will open so it is the only thing on the page , then hold the ctrl key and roll your mouse wheel to size the pic, you see what I mean about
picture resolution vs monitor resolution.

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