<html> One idea, and the short version. Let your customer buy his own piano wire at a (good) hardware store. In any event, resolve (and absolve) yourself from any liability, including 'implied'.<br> <br> The longer version. There's a reason why weed-eaters use nylon or plastic materials. First, it expends itself as it is worn/used. Next, parts (or all) of the nylon strand(s) will shear off in the event the material contacts a hard object. Hard objects may be defined as fence posts, brick walls... or leg bones. Piano wire doesn't share that desirable characteristic.<br> <br> <br> <br> At 05:55 PM 10/4/99 -0500, you wrote: <br> <font size=2><blockquote type=cite cite>Sorry for the of topic, but let me run this by you people - I have a customer that wants to experiment with piano wire in his weed eater ILO plastic. He apparently has a machine that uses 24" x 3/8" (or so) plastic strands that wrap somehow around an armature adn thinks that piano wire would be more effective. Dare I give him a piece to experiment with? I'm having trouble with product liability in that because I know what his intended purpose is I am not without responsibility in selling the product for a purpose for which it is not intended. What if somebody gets hurt if the wire gets loose? Ideas?</font><br>  <br> <font size=2>Roy Ulrich</font></blockquote><br> <br> <br> <div>Jim Harvey</div> <div>harvey@greenwood.net</div> <div>Greenwood, SC</div> <div>Greenwood (n): the largest city in South Carolina WITHOUT an Interstate</div> </html>