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If you use different wire like stranded insulated 12 gauge you will have shorter wires because of the lower velocity factor of the insulation coated wire. Problem is, once the UV has it's way with the insulation and it falls off it won't be tuned right because the velocity factor will increase and it will go down in frequency, plus since it has been up a while in the wind it is already stretched and will have lowered in frequency.

I believe it will stretch less and last longer if you use stranded copper wire instead of the solid 14ga they sell for it. If you use stranded without insulation then you won't have that changing velocity factor and tuning problem but it's hard to find stranded copper wire without insulation for as cheap a price as home depot has it insulated, so you might want to sharpen your Buck knife or put a new blade in your Stanley drywall knife and strip it off.
Then the tuning process begins.

<blockquote data-quote="Needle Bender" data-source="post: 349423" data-attributes="member: 13339">If you use different wire like stranded insulated 12 gauge you will have shorter wires because of the lower velocity factor of the insulation coated wire. Problem is, once the UV has it&#039;s way with the insulation and it falls off it won&#039;t be tuned right because the velocity factor will increase and it will go down in frequency, plus since it has been up a while in the wind it is already stretched and will have lowered in frequency.I believe it will stretch less and last longer if you use stranded copper wire instead of the solid 14ga they sell for it. If you use stranded without insulation then you won&#039;t have that changing velocity factor and tuning problem but it&#039;s hard to find stranded copper wire without insulation for as cheap a price as home depot has it insulated, so you might want to sharpen your Buck knife or put a new blade in your Stanley drywall knife and strip it off.Then the tuning process begins.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":huh:" title="Unsure&nbsp; &nbsp; :huh:"&nbsp; data-smilie="28"data-shortname=":huh:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Needle Bender, post: 349423, member: 13339"] If you use different wire like stranded insulated 12 gauge you will have shorter wires because of the lower velocity factor of the insulation coated wire. Problem is, once the UV has it's way with the insulation and it falls off it won't be tuned right because the velocity factor will increase and it will go down in frequency, plus since it has been up a while in the wind it is already stretched and will have lowered in frequency. I believe it will stretch less and last longer if you use stranded copper wire instead of the solid 14ga they sell for it. If you use stranded without insulation then you won't have that changing velocity factor and tuning problem but it's hard to find stranded copper wire without insulation for as cheap a price as home depot has it insulated, so you might want to sharpen your Buck knife or put a new blade in your Stanley drywall knife and strip it off. Then the tuning process begins.:huh: [/QUOTE]

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