No, I only used the three materials and I have done nothing since 1988. The steal was best and it could be spot welded for extra strength. The copper was heavy, but looked good and was easy to work with and teach others. We also had a huge supply of extra clear insulated winding copper from the rewind shop*. I still have a helm of this material somewhere the rest is gone. I wore a felt cap under the rings. The aluminum was easy enough to work with but it did not spot weld and was nowhere near as strong as the steal for this application.
We always used heavy gauge wire; I wonder what form they got the PVC in to make chain mail out of it. Sounds like an interesting but purely decorative method.
Jim
- I was on the USS Ranger CV61 at the time and we had a lot of spare time where we had to be awake but not really doing anything but looking at gauges and indicator lights.