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On 23 May 2003 at 6:15, jason.smith@sarcom.com wrote: > So I got to thinking and trying to find a similar gauge wire. I had an old > computer mouse laying around at work, so I cut the wire open to see what I > could find. There were some nice thin wires inside all wound together. I > took it home unwound a strand and compared it to the original wire and it > seemed correct, but maybe a hair thicker, but still thin enough to break a > few times. That won't work. No copper wire of any reasonable thickness will work. You won't find what you want in any common household device that I can think of. I should be able to measure the wire sometime and calculate the conductivity and maybe find out what it is, but you can start off by measuring the resistance for 1 foot of the wire you're considering. If it's not 100 Ohms, +/- 20%, it won't be any good. A copper wire in that size will still probably have less than 1 Ohm per foot resistance, and it will be too soft to stand up to the float sliding up and down it for long. 40AWG copper wire would have 115 Ohms/ft, so that would be close, but it is only .003" dia. Is the original wire magnetic, by any chance? Try a magnet on it. -- Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711-3054 USA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org