Hardly. The only screams I got was when I bought a spool off 4 conductor 10 gauge Tefzel wire. An auditor asked me "Do you know we paid seventeen dollars an inch for that wire?"
I laughed. B,S
The conductors were solid silver. Bit the wire was way too stiff.
The men in black came on a Monday. After I used a high powered frequency generator testing batteries as a B2 flew overhead. I was forced to build a Faraday cage for the 1 700 lb transformers. The Skunkworks auctions only lasted one summer but I bought several tons of wire. Cable, and Hubbell fittings. Also a piece of titanium plate which I pounded on in Mexico.