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Re: Home Made Variac



Hi All,
          actaully those motor brushes are completely wrong for a variac,
but as long as you keep the run time short you won't burn them out.


Regards
Nick Field
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Subject: Re: Home Made Variac


> Original Poster: BillEaver-at-aol-dot-com
>
> To all coilers,etc.
> An easy fix that I have found to fix carbon brush or shoe for variac,
AC/DC
> motor
> etc, is an old dry cell battery carbon rod. A file will cut this stuff
real
> easy. Also
> the right kind of graphite works also. Check with an ohmmeter for low
> resistance.
> Denis Despins
> KC6TRW
>
>
>