High Strength wire
High Strength wire
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Help!! I am trying to wrap .022" high strength music wire around a 2" diam. cylinder without the wire taking a permanent set when unwrapped. I am currently using a zinc coated music wire with the tensile strength of 365ksi, but it is still taking a slight set. I am looking for something stronger or a diferent material that will spring back straight. The material has to be electrically conductive and has to be .020-.026" in diameter. Please let me know if anyone has any ideas!!





RE: High Strength wire
Out of curiosity, why are you wrapping the wire around a mandrel if you do not want it to maintain that shape? Perhaps I am missing something here, but you are using what I consider to be the strongest commercially available steel wire, and it is still deforming. Why can't you wrap it around a larger diameter if you don't want permanent deformation? Alternatively, why is permanent deformation undesirable? You may find it easier to address these issues than to locate a higher strength grade of steel.
RE: High Strength wire
RE: High Strength wire
1.Why do you need such a high strength wire? Is it because you are trying to eliminate plastic deformation or do you need the strength for structural purposes?
2.Rather than eliminate plastic deformation, which I don't think you can, why not use a very plastic wire, such as copper, which can be be formed many times without need for annealing?
3.Does it have to be wire? Try thinking in terms of a flat spring, such as you would find in a tape measure. Would that work?
Interesting problem.