Re: Different secondary design ?

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• Subject: Re: Different secondary design ?
• From: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:39:08 -0600
• Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
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Greg Leyh did something similar for Electrum.  Wind the coil on a cardboard
form, encapsulate in resin, then wash the cardboard away with high pressure
water.

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Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:17 PM
Subject: Different secondary design ?


>Original Poster: jkooi-at-wish-dot-net
>
>Hi all,
>
>Is it possible to create a secondary without a pipe on the inside I asked
>myself.
>If so, there would be no loss from the PVC I now use.
>
>The idea was to use a PVC pipe and grease it slightely, or use mylar or
>something else
>to put between the PVC and copper windings to be removed later, wind the
copper
>wire
>aroud it, coat it, and of course let it get hard, gentely pull the PVC out
and
>clean the
>wire from whatever youv'e put between it and coat it several times for
>strenghtening the
>wire from collapsing on it's own
>
>Or maybe if done with mylar inbetween, leave the mylar as your secondary
form.
>
>So, is this something that has potential, or has someone allready done this
?
>
>I reallise this can only be done with rather small TC's, `cause a big coil
>would fall in on it's
>own weight.
>
>greetings from Jeroen Kooiman from a really HOT and sunny (30C) Holland
>
>
>
>

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