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Beautiful design. Curious since you mention the issues with plastic, what's the part that you couldn't avoid plastic for the trefolo (given you mention it's 0.0

• create-username 2y ago
  Electric Cables? They are hard to make in metal or wood
  • vasco 2y ago
    Electric cables at very easy to make in metal, in fact I'd wager 90%+ at least are made of copper in the whole world.
    • dog436zkj3p7 2y ago
      Have you heard of insulation?
      • pm3003 2y ago
        Silicon ?
        • 0xffff2 2y ago
          Do you mean silicon or silicone? The former isn't a very good candidate for flexible cable insulation. The later is a form of plastic.
      • vasco 2y ago
        If I say humans are made of polyester you wouldn't correct me? You usually meet them wearing insulation too.
    • yetihehe 2y ago
      Electric cables are made from insulation (plastic) and wires (metal). Wires use metal, insulation typically does not, so it's NOT easy to make a whole cable out of metal.
  • grues-dinner 2y ago
    About the only kind of fully plastic-free cable I know of (other then historical examples) is bare MICC aka "pyro", which are copper tube sheaths filled with magnesium oxide powder and the wires in the middle. It's used especially in fireproof installations. A huge pain to install as it's so stiff and needs special tools and fittings to keep it from absorbing water from the air. It has a large bend radius, and it only good for fixed installation as it will crack open if you bend it a few times. And it's nearly £1000 for 100m. So it's not very popular these days. Plastic really is an annoyingly wonderous category of material when you consider the flexibility, insulation, mechanical, thermal and chemical resistance it can have (and the price)!