Reply to "Where do you buy your layout wire?"

I stockpiled mine from the metal salvage yard here.  They used to sell their stuff to the public so much per pound.  I bought a lot of transformers and variacs also, I think for 10cents per pound.  I would just spool off what wire I thought I would need instead of buying the whole spools. It was much cheaper than I could buy it anywhere else and got some unusual colors in the process.