But if not, just have a think about this for a moment. How much of the cost of the thing do you really think the little blob of aluminium is? Versus the wire and the work involved in swaging it to a guaranteed, quality controlled strength?
Then it should hopefully be pretty obvious why nobody offers that service.
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