Nick, I was used to using stainless MIG welding wire and twisting it with a drill. Although this stuff does work harden quite a bit and has to be annealed to work easily. You could also use brass or copper or silver for the same reasons but they would all tend to work harden quite a bit while twisting them...
I have been told that stainless safety lock wire works rather well, which is supplied dead soft. Anything that you try make sure its annealed or in the dead soft state before you wrap it to get a nice tight wrap and it lays down nice and flat...
If you would like to try the stainless just let me know, I have a bunch of peices big enough for what you are doing already twisted and annealed I would send ya for free. No use in buying a whole roll of wire just to make a couple feet.
Last time I twisted wire it was almost 250 feet, twisted in half, used to wire wrapp the whole handle... Let me know if what I have can help ya out!
Alan Folts...
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If a Man talks in the forest, and there is no Woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
