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March 29th 04, 10:41 AM

(Dave Platt) wrote in message ...
In article ,
Richard Clark wrote:

then the wire will work harden and break

Copper?

That's my experience, and a few minutes of Google-searching the Web
comes up with numerous references stating that copper does suffer from
work hardening after cold-deformation. The extent depends on the
purity of the copper and on what other metals it has been alloyed
with. [Lead is apparently one of the few metals not subject to work
hardening.]

This process can be reversed by annealing, but that's a bit tricky to
do if the copper is already part of a coaxial cable :-)

.. . . no sweat, just run a 2M kilowatt thru the 174 and I guarantee
the center conductor will get "annealed" . .