Where to buy .032 stainless steel safety wire / How much ?

[Chris Coffey]

Dont buy chinese pliers, buy nice pliers once and you won't need to worry about it.

I have a pair of SnapOn reversable pliers that are about 3 years old and I use them almost everyday at work. Not a single issue.

[Linz Leard]

The .032 is utterly ridiculous, arbitrary, and shows a desire to have a simple blanket number, ahead of good wiring with tight point to point lines. May be necessary in the lowest common denominator world of club racing where there is no ability to build in a lot of inspection capability, but narrower gauge wire ran on a better azimuth or tangent would be a far more effective rule..

Or people could just learn how to twist wire.

I'm not having any trouble with the 032 wire. There are places I'm using it where I used to use thinner wire and it's working out fine. In fact, I'm breaking a lot less wire than I used to. I'm surprised to see all the folks having problems.

This.

[Joe Rodriguez]

i noticed that the .032 wire sold by moose is much tougher to twist than the one in the blue can or even the one sold by bikemaster.
a good set of reversible pliers goes a long way, the HB ones will quit on the thicker wire after a short time, nothing worse than pliers quitting right before heading to tech ,,,