<HTML><HTML>In a message dated 6/25/2005 8:48:5= 0 PM Central Standard Time, cmpiano@comcast.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">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.<= BR> </BLOCKQUOTE> 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 ben= t past a point in the curve of elasiticity. So....not as good a reason as an= y. :-) Paul R-J</HTML>