Re: repair

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• Subject: Re: repair
• From: RODERICK MAXWELL <major-at-vicksburg-dot-com>
• Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 08:12:24 -0600
• Subscriber: major-at-vicksburg-dot-com Tue Jan 28 22:49:45 1997

Tesla List wrote:
> 
<SNIP>
> burn your skin like napalm - "cooking" should only be attempted
> outdoors. After trying it once, I'd opt for the freeze-and-chip or
> dissolve-and-conquer methods! Also, only some transformers can be
> rescued. If internal arcing has carbonized part of the secondary winding
> itself, then that secondary winding cannot be saved. Since many times
> only one-half of these go bad, it's often possible to save "good"
> secondaries from two transformers of the same type to assemble one good
> transformer from two defectives.
> 
> Safe cookin', freezing, or dissolving to ya!
> 
> -- Bert --


  Has anyone ever tried to rewind the secondaries?



                   Frankensteins Helper
                           Max

[ I have.  It was fun, but that's because I built the winder and had fun
doing that.  I wouldn't recommend doing it.  It's extremely labor
intensive.  You need to build a winder that has a turn counter on it and
a power cross feed.  You cannot wind the 32 ga wire by hand and expect it
to lay flat.  The power feed needs to have a reverse too.  I discovered
that the hard way and had to put the reverse on it after I had made a
lopsided coil of 10,500 turns. -- Chip]

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