Mild steel wire sourcing

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I lucked out one day during graduate school in a steel yard and found a source for mild steel wire that I can weld. However since the fake pandemic, shipping is more than three times the amount of the wire itself from that manufacturer. I am now scouring the web but can't even find reference to this material. To be clear, I am looking for 9 gauge uncoated steel wire that I can weld together. The original supplier sold big coils of it.
Reply:It is found in 100 pound coils at steel warehouse.  They use for tie steel bundles .Dave

Originally Posted by girlwelder7

I lucked out one day during graduate school in a steel yard and found a source for mild steel wire that I can weld. However since the fake pandemic, shipping is more than three times the amount of the wire itself from that manufacturer. I am now scouring the web but can't even find reference to this material. To be clear, I am looking for 9 gauge uncoated steel wire that I can weld together. The original supplier sold big coils of it.
Reply:Most builder's supplies around here carry it. It is used for cement forms. https://redbrandstore.com/products/b...yABEgLRmfD_BwEhttps://www.grainger.com/product/GRA...ltItems_16X997---Meltedmetal
Reply:It's #9 tie wire. I think you want "black annealed". The shiny stuff looks to all be zinc plated or galvanized.