Platinum coil.

[Periklis Karolidis]

Hi,

When i was young i was working in a spring factory and we manufactured heating elements in platinum. They were used in butane kitchen to fire up the gas.

I found roughly 12 cm of the wire (0.3mm).

Can it be used to make a coil for my kayfun?

BR
P

 

[DavidOck]

Without knowing the specific resistance of the wire, I'd say no. Kanthal A1 is cheap and effective.

 

[jersey_emt]

It's probably a platinum-rhodium alloy, used for furnaces that need to get hotter than the maximum temperature of nichrome or Kanthal. Since we don't get anywhere even close to the melting point of Kanthal or nichrome, platinum wire would be pointless, as well as pointlessly expensive.

Kanthal costs around $5-10 (depending on gauge) per 100 feet and works just fine.