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Re: Secondary wire & insulation
Subject: Re: Secondary wire & insulation
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 23:58:23 -0600
From: "DR.RESONANCE" <DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net>
To: "Tesla List" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
To: Alfred
A tip for lathe winders: Start with a 1/2 or 3/4 ID pvc tube.
Guesstimate
your feed settings as best as you can and then wind away. After careful
adjustment you will have a feed that works good for your size wire. The
main point here is that by using a small tube for starting out you don't
use very much wire to do a 5 inch lineal test winding. You can toss
these
tests away after getting the best settings and then wind away at a
reasonably high speed on the larger diameter 4 in or 6 in tube with the
correct settings. It is a lot easier to make a mistake on a 1/2 tube
and
then throw it away than it is to waste a lot of wire on a larger tube.
After we dial in our settings for a particular type of wire we record
this
data. Then 6 months later we can speed wind a coil such as a 6 in tube
x
26 in length in approximately 15 minutes total winding time without any
overlaps or gaps.
Hope this tip is of assitance.
DR.RESONANCE-at-next-wave-dot-net
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> Subject: Re: Secondary wire & insulation
> Date: Monday,June 09,1997 10:30 PM
>
> Subject: Re: Secondary wire & insulation
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 22:06:47 +0500
> From: "Alfred A. Skrocki" <alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com>
> To: Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:03:51 -0700 (PDT) Edward V. Phillips
> <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu> wrote;
>
> > "Of course the best way is to use a
> > lathe (expensive)or make a winding machine."
>
> Watch out on using the lathe. It is almost impossible
> > to stop in time when something goes wrong with the winding,
> > as it usually does (at least for me).
>
> I'm lucky on that one! My wife bought me an 8 inch EMCO with back
> gears and speed control on the head and a magnetic break. That baby
> will stop on a dime from 3000 RPM! When I wind coils I set the back
> gears to give me the thread pitch I want then I start up the head
> slowly and watch as it goes.
>
> > A hand-cranked winder consisting of nothing more than a piece of
> > threaded rod mounted in simple bearings (even wood) and end pieces
> > which fit the tube work just great. It only takes an hour or so
> > to wind a pretty big coil, and you can't get in trouble. Particularly
> > if you keep pre-cut masking tape handy to hold things in place
> > when you have to stop. Look at some of the TCBOR videos for
> > similar arrangement.
>
> How do you space your windings on a jig like that? I mean it has no
> longitudinal feed so your going to be holding the wire in your hand.
> Not very precise if you ask me. Unless you set it up like a giant
> bait casting fishing reel.
>