TWISTED ALUMINIUM WIRE

Aluminium wires exist in different diameters: 0,5 mm, 0,7 mm, 1mm…
When using it for the armatures, consider twisting some strings of wire together to improve their individual resistance to breakage.

You can twist your wires by hand, but by using a drill, the twisting will be more even.

Tutorial to twist wires with a drill:

step1: cut some pieces of wire of the same length;

step2: attach them together with a small piece of heat shrink wire.

step3: put this extremity in a drill,

and roll the other end of the wires around a pencil, so you can pull it tight. Then press the button on the drill.

step4: et voila! you now have a very even piece of twisted wire (more or less: sometimes you can't use the total lenght of the wires…)

I buy my aluminium wire in a shop in Paris called WEBER METAUX, where they sell it by the kilo (a kilo is an enormous roll).