would like to use an alloy of copper often called aluminum bronze or aluminum brass for making wire wrapped jewelry but I am unable to find a supplier. An alloy that has no zinc or lead would be best to avoid toxicity problems. This alloy should be principally copper and aluminum but other added materials would be acceptable if not toxic. Nickel, silicon, manganese, and iron are sometimes added to increase performance of the alloy and should be acceptable (no lead or zinc please). The material obviously needs to be bendable enough to work with wire wrapping so if it is brittle it will not work. It should then be at least as usable as aluminum, copper, or stainless steel wire. glass-fiber covered aluminum wire for Electrical Instrument Update: The material is AWS A5.7, ERCuAl-A1, CuAl8, C61000, Aluminum Bronze. Need 0.4mm and 0.7mm square and round wire. Aluminum bronze is a statue casting material and I am surprised that it is available as wire. I have never heard of aluminum brass in my miscellaneous wandering. If they existed, they would be non-ferrous metal alloys and available from non-ferrous or jewelers suppliers - but jewelers probably don't have copper based alloys because of the green staining that can occur. Glass fiber covered wire for transformers in Australia widely used in transformer of microwave oven, three-phase power transformer, rectifier, degaussing coil of large screen color TV set, kitchen motors, magnetic mineral separating equipment, spare parts for automobile, wire and cable, etc.
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