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   From: usenet@nononono.co.uk   
      
   On 20/01/2014 10:18, Tim Williams wrote:   
   > "Phil Allison"  wrote in message   
   > news:bk38f3Fme1fU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>> Electroplated wire, most likely nickel.   
   >>   
   >> ** But nickel plated stuff solders beautifully.   
   >>   
   >>   Jack plugs and sockets, DC plugs etc.   
   >   
   > I have some mil spec, high-temp wire that's nickel plated.  Beautiful   
   > stuff, strands wound in layers.  It takes an unusually high temperature   
   > and a long time before the solder wets and soaks into it.  It does tin,   
   > but I wouldn't say it solders "beautifully", not with ordinary fluxes.   
   >   
   > Tim   
      
   I have some Nickel plated copper wire - single core - which I bought   
   believing it to be tinned copper.  It doesn't wet well with my ancient   
   'non corrosive flux' Multicore 60/40.   
      
   A touch of flux and it solders beautifully.   
      
   Cheers   
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