Aluminum Wound Strings

Greg Torres Tunapiana@adisfwb.com
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 05:45:03 -0600


Don & list:

There is only one problem with that test for aluminum-the magnet will stick to the
core wire.
Now, maybe you are assuming that some of the winding be removed for testing
first?  :-)
Just a thought...

Regards,
Greg Torres

Don wrote:

> 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.
>





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