Wire suppliers

[CheopisIV]

I've been using Remington for the most part over the past 10 years; some wire from other sources in China but they always come on smaller spools and take forever to get here (Canada). Lately, all my Remington spools have been coming unusable. I'll get a random number of coils off then the wire starts snapping underneath the spool typically on the upper end... it's like the wire was wound on top of itself and it gets caught up and when it snaps, I lose the end somewhere and can't retrieve it. Same thing on 4 different spools now. They've been good about sending replacement spools, but it keeps happening and I can't afford to wait for replacement after replacement while orders sit here unfulfilled.

Anyone have any recommendation on different Canadian/US suppliers? We seem pretty limited on domestic wire sources.

[K-Line]

MWS

[tedmich]

Essex still has a Mfg facility in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada I believe.

[Lollar Jason]

Do your spools have tapered ends? If so get spools with flat ends- the tapered allows the spool to pinch the wire under a layer while being wound on or due to dropping it. You can fix it but be prepared to spend an hour.. Make a straight cut from flange to flange 1/16 or 1/8" deep and start peeling it off carefully. Eventually you get down to having 3 ends- 2 or those are a loop and one is the new end of the spool. It works- done it many times in the past but its really only worth it for 5 or 10 pound spools IMO

[the great waldo]

Do your spools have tapered ends? If so get spools with flat ends- the tapered allows the spool to pinch the wire under a layer while being wound on or due to dropping it. You can fix it but be prepared to spend an hour.. Make a straight cut from flange to flange 1/16 or 1/8" deep and start peeling it off carefully. Eventually you get down to having 3 ends- 2 or those are a loop and one is the new end of the spool. It works- done it many times in the past but its really only worth it for 5 or 10 pound spools IMO

Hi Jason
A good trick I learnt was when you can't find the end of the wire in a damaged spool use a shopvac to suck up the wire, eventually you come to the correct wire end. It works great and got me out of trouble more than once.
Cheers
Andrew (I suppose I won't be buying anymore wire from the USA because of the tariffs (it was expensive enough before)) which is a shame. I'm in Europe.