Aluminum Wound Strings

[Don]

Hi Susan et al,

To test for iron vs aluminium strings simply try to stick a fridge magnet on
the strings--if it does you have iron, if not aluminium. 


At 06:09 PM 3/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
>At 06:26 PM 3/10/98 -0500, Frank Weston wrote:
>>Newton and List,
>>
>>Just out of curiosity, why would the windings more likely be iron than
>>aluminum?  Is there an easy test to determine what the winding might be? 
>>
>
>Hi, Frank
>
>Perhaps if you took a small piece of winding off and tried a magnet?
>
>I know, that sounds far too obvious ... and won't tell you what sort of iron.
>
>Susan
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