Solution to Difficult Wire

[bud8fan]

I think you will find that any stainless in the 300 series will be fine for the plugs.
Now if you were talking the 400 series I would tell you that rust is a big problem!
304 stainless is the most widely used in most fields(not talking plug building here).
Not sure if you guys knew this but the more you work with the 300 series stainless the harder it will get.
For instance if you took a flat piece of 304 and passed it through a leveling machine with slight pressure every pass will make it a little harder. This is a little trick we use at work if a customer sends their own material to be perforated and it comes in soft. We can actually change the hardness if it by doing this.
Its what we call "work hardening"!

At my place of employment we deal with all sorts of companies in all fields. One of our biggest customers is in the medical field and they buy their parts out of 304 and their application is submerged in water 100% of the time! Never have they complained that their parts rust.


Salty? Do you still have that 304 you said you tried?
If you do, try what I mentioned above. Work it a bit and see if it gets harder.
Now if the wire is annealed "dead soft" it might not come back.
But its worth a try.