Stainless steel wire
Type 316 steel, in various degrees of hardness
Description
Available in:
- Annealed - flexible; yield strength 620-830 MPa (90-120 ksi)
- Half hard - semi elastic; tensile strength 1070-1280 MPa (155-185 ksi)
- Full hard- elastic; tensile strength 1480-1690 MPa (215-245 ksi)
Please specify at order and inquiry!
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Stainless steel wire |
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Item |
Length |
Diameter |
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SS-2W |
30 m |
50.8 µm |
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SS-3W |
30 m |
76.2 µm |
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SS-5W |
30 m |
127 µm |
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SS-8W |
30 m |
203 µm |
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SS-10W |
30 m |
254 µm |
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SS-20W |
30 m |
508 µm |
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Annealed, Full, and Half Hard are descriptive terms for the way the wire was cured in the drawing process. Each of these techniques will help yield different tensile strengths given in thousands of pounds per square inch (ksi or kPSI). The main points to think about are that the higher the ksi the more brittle the wire is but the better it retains its shape. The high ksi wire is good for making straight electrodes that need to penetrate through tissue. The low ksi is a softer more flexible wire, it is less likely to break if you repetitively bend the wire. This low ksi wire is good for making twisted pair electrodes.