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!

 

Stainless steel wire

Item

Length

Diameter

 

SS-2W

30 m

50.8 µm

 

SS-3W

30 m

76.2 µm

 

SS-5W

30 m

127 µm

 

SS-8W

30 m

203 µm

 

SS-10W

30 m

254 µm

 

SS-20W

30 m

508 µm

 

 

 
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.