If you can not solder / tin, too much aluminum

I wanted to tin the wire and solder to a connection, but that does not work, not even with flux. The copper layer on the aluminum wire is too thin, so that probably formed by the same aluminum a oxidation layer. A copper-colored paint might be no worse but cheaper.

It is not supplied on a roll, as depicted, but is sealed in foil as a loose ring.

Another criticism Punk, that's cable do not know, as pictured, but a vein has a black line as a marker. Since I wanted to pull it in a corner against a white wall, it would look unsightly because of the mark.

Honestly, I did not know that such a thing Useless is ever sold. Aluminum cable, I know only from the GDR era, where the houses were moved in and has now seems to be removed everywhere today (because of bad qualities). I was curious, what kind of a kind of cable, so the purchase. The verscheiernde designation CCA I not known to date also.

Conclusion:
I would buy it again and not do not recommend it.
Pity about the many energy that was necessary for the production of aluminum.

The return was hassle.