At 03:39 PM 19/12/2012, you wrote:
>As mentioned in the subject, I'm seeking a source of really cheap optical
>fiber for an "art" project.
>Ideally bare plastic fiber, about 0.5mm dia, pennies per meter or less.
>Several thousand meters may be necessarily.
>As this is "art" rather than data, most normal fiber specifications are
>irrelevant.
>In use I'm mostly looking for a dot of visible light maybe a meter from it=
s
>source.
>
>I see various Christmas trees and lamps and such products with ~100 meters
>of fiber in them sold at retail for ~$10, so I'm having a hard time
>accepting the $0.20-$0.50 per foot pricing I've found online.
>
>Suggestions?
>
>
>-Denny

With a quick look online, I see 6,000m of 0.5mm for about
$100 (USD 0.005 per foot). That's plastic (Polymethyl methacrylate).

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