Re: Fiberglass Coil form

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Subject: Re: Fiberglass Coil form
From: Malcolm Watts <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 07:53:05 +1200

Hi Storey,
             Sounds like a nice find. Come to think of it, I have a 
couple of fibreglass tubes donated by Jim Oliver that I have yet to 
use hmmmm....

>     I was wandering through my favorite junk yard and came across a piece
> of fiberglass pipe, 10" diameter by 7 feet long, clean, apparently
> unused. I asked the junk dealer and he said,"It musta come in on some
> truck, but its nothing I can sell, so you can have it if you want it".
> So now I have a beautiful, light weight, 1/8" wall, coil form, and I am
> iching to start winding. I have on hand a supply of 22gauge formvar
> which would give me a winding length of 27 inches for 1000 turns, or
> should I go out and buy some 18 gauge and wind 40 inches for 1000 turns?

I would go for the lower aspect ratio personally.

Not as experienced as some,
Malcolm