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Re: Beginner questions

Original poster: Finn Hammer <f-h@xxxx>

Tyler, welcome aboard.

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Original poster: Tyler Pauly <rpggod714@xxxxxxxxx>

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2. Do you have any words of wisdom on constructing the
primary? Mine will be 12 turns of .25 copper tubing
held by HDPE cutting board. They start at 6" diam. to
17". I originally planned for 6 supports, but not only
was it incredibly hard to "wind" it, but the glue
holding the plastic to the board support gave out. I
know glue wasn't the best idea, so I'm now routing
ruts into my board to slip the strips of HDPE into.
I'm kind of struggling. There's got to be an easier
way to this. Any ideas?

Routing, would be increadibly sufficient if you make mating dovetail routing on the supports and the base, so that you have to slide the supports into place, radially from outside.

Another way would be to drill 2-3 holes trough the base plate, into the supports, enlarge the holes in the base plate to give free clearance to the nylon screws going into the (now) threaded holes in the sypports. This would give nice concealed fixture of the supports.

You could go down from the top also.

Cheers, Finn Hammer



                         Thanks for the help,
                              Tyler