Home made copper packing

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Home made copper packing

Postby Remme » Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:17 pm

G'day fellas,

Im a sparky so I have an abundance of copper cable lying around and recently started stripping cables while i was running the still. Thought id try and make my own sort of scrubbers out of the stranded cable. I reckon this might just work, though I haven't tried it yet. Thoughts?

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Re: Home made copper packing

Postby Undertaker » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:50 pm

Works for me. But I used welding cable.
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Twisted the ends and soldered to keep the fine wires together.
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Then untwisted the strands to make em go all bushy, and just sort of made scrunchies out of them.

Cheers Phil
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Re: Home made copper packing

Postby Plumby » Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:13 pm

Very ingenious guys :handgestures-thumbupleft: . As they say necessity is the mother of all invention.
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Re: Home made copper packing

Postby rumdidlydum » Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:00 pm

Looks like a bird's nest :teasing-tease:

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Re: Home made copper packing

Postby Stemmy » Fri Jan 27, 2017 1:06 am

Looks very inventive I suppose copper is copper
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