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I'm kinda doing a 'winter styling' as I missed a styling-time and have a bunch of wire-bite so am removing wires & replacing them w/ new ones, however I've begun re-using the wire and am curious if anyone's tried this and found it to be a good/bad approach?
I'm re-using it in two ways, the first hasn't been that practical IMO and that's simply un-winding the wire while it's in-place (ie only doing 1 of the 2 wired-branches at a time), then re-wrapping it on the same branch only with the contact-areas being a few mm away from the old bites.
The 2nd way that I'm just starting to mess with this afternoon is an outright re-use, I've un-wound the wiring from a bunch of branches and skinned the insulation off of them, straightened them sufficiently and am about to anneal them- *this* feels like it could be an awesome way to reuse/save $ if you don't mind discounting the time stripping the wires (once "in your groove" it's incredibly fast, I did it while watching a couple car-mechanics youtubes that I was going to be watching anyways and just mindlessly removed insulation while doing so!)
I feel like this could be a great approach but if someone's tried it and found it futile I'd want to know before doing "round 2" (only got like 1/3 of the wire I had to remove yesterday), I typically don't anneal as I find the ductility of 'factory-annealled' (they anneal twice, FWIW) romex to be just fine for me on the first use, I leave the insulation on the strands that have it as it helps spread the load/contact-points on the branch when applied, once removed it's now too-stiff and stripping-insulation & annealing just seems proper!
Thanks a ton for any thoughts on this one!! Was going to try using a toaster oven but just re-checked my go-to annealing guide and was reminded just how hot these need to get so guess it's back to the bbq pit lol!!!
PS- In fear of being told this is completely stupid, my go-to article speaks of re-using as well so I can't imagine I'm the only to have considered it ;D I can go buy more romex, in fact I have to anyways, but like the idea of doing this in conjunction with fresh wire, I see it becoming a cycle of first-use = off-the-roll, second-use = stripped&annealled!
I'm re-using it in two ways, the first hasn't been that practical IMO and that's simply un-winding the wire while it's in-place (ie only doing 1 of the 2 wired-branches at a time), then re-wrapping it on the same branch only with the contact-areas being a few mm away from the old bites.
The 2nd way that I'm just starting to mess with this afternoon is an outright re-use, I've un-wound the wiring from a bunch of branches and skinned the insulation off of them, straightened them sufficiently and am about to anneal them- *this* feels like it could be an awesome way to reuse/save $ if you don't mind discounting the time stripping the wires (once "in your groove" it's incredibly fast, I did it while watching a couple car-mechanics youtubes that I was going to be watching anyways and just mindlessly removed insulation while doing so!)
I feel like this could be a great approach but if someone's tried it and found it futile I'd want to know before doing "round 2" (only got like 1/3 of the wire I had to remove yesterday), I typically don't anneal as I find the ductility of 'factory-annealled' (they anneal twice, FWIW) romex to be just fine for me on the first use, I leave the insulation on the strands that have it as it helps spread the load/contact-points on the branch when applied, once removed it's now too-stiff and stripping-insulation & annealing just seems proper!
Thanks a ton for any thoughts on this one!! Was going to try using a toaster oven but just re-checked my go-to annealing guide and was reminded just how hot these need to get so guess it's back to the bbq pit lol!!!
PS- In fear of being told this is completely stupid, my go-to article speaks of re-using as well so I can't imagine I'm the only to have considered it ;D I can go buy more romex, in fact I have to anyways, but like the idea of doing this in conjunction with fresh wire, I see it becoming a cycle of first-use = off-the-roll, second-use = stripped&annealled!