Piano wire tensile strength

[PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com]

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In a message dated 6/25/2005 8:48:50 PM Central Standard Time, 
cmpiano@comcast.net writes:

> It's elementary, my dear Watson.  Twisting the wire work hardens it and 
> therefore it is stronger.  Anyway, that's as good as any for a reason.
> 

Carl:
Twisting (unless it were to be 20 or 30 times perhaps) doesn't even approach 
"work-hardening" or the duplex deformation properties of metal which is bent 
past a point in the curve of elasiticity. So....not as good a reason as any. 
:-)

Paul R-J

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