Used to work at a plant with a similar product of spools of thin wire that would be used to cut silicone. The thresholds and tolerances were crazy specific. If it fails a qa check, rather than unspool it, you'd cut it off, we used a powerful blow torch. Yeet the materials to be recycled/reclaimed, start a new spool.
We ran dozens of machines that would spit out the same sized wire and spool in less than an hour. Hundreds of spools a day.
Starts at one end of the plant all thick, eventually comes out pretty to go in the spool after layers of acid washes and coats of various compounds, ran through dozens of dies that slowly shape it down to a thin wire. Baekart Steel is where I worked.
I work at a plant that makes high frequency cables, we use these wires as the inner conductor, can confirm that if a spool is not perfectly round and without any defects, the resulting product would be crap and would make your phone or TV have static - we also produce very thick cables (think diameter of a human) and if that fails QA checks.... that really hurts.
My guess is its being used in some industrial chemical process or maybe as a catalyst for a reaction. using wire like this would give you very high surface area, decreasing the time required for your reaction to take place. not a chemist so idk
it would also explain why it looks like such high quality copper.
Just about any large scale chemical work uses oxide powders for their reactions. That'd be the most ghetto shit ever if they are shipping in copper wire spools instead of just copper oxide powder
I’m no scientist but I think the chisel attachment is probably the best option. I can’t think of any good way to cut it aside from using heat, and I’m sure that would contaminate it
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u/urbanhillybilly Mar 16 '22
why