Re: Melted enamel spool, fixable??

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net>

Hi Erik,

Well, you could respool it so the melted area is on the inside of the
spool. However, you could
also simply use the wire on a secondary if you can keep the windings from
touching (shorting)
one another. One method would be to thread a former keeping the windings in
the threads. Another
method is to space wind a coil. The wire insulation is then unnecessary for
all practical
purposes and if you had any worry's, you could just coat the secondary.

Also, 350 lb's is a "huge" amount of wire (easily 50 secondary's could be
wound from this
spool). You might want to offer some to the list members if there's more
than you'll ever use.
Then again, you might have plans for it or want to keep it for future use.
Great job scrounging!

Take care,
Bart Anderson

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Erik Byng by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<e_byng-at-hotmail-dot-com>
>
> Hi there ya'll.
>
> I spent some of my time last week hunting down a reliable source for magnet
> wire locally, and wound up (no pun intended) visiting a rewind shop.
>
> While there, I spotted this 350lb+(!) spool of 21awg heavy enamel mag wire
> sitting on a pallet.  The only problem was that the first 50 or 60 layers on
> the spool had been melted when, somehow, the enamel ran together, but only
> on those first 50 layers. I got it for free(!), but I'm at a loss as to how
> to fix it, any sugestions??
>
> Thanks
> Erik
>
> p.s. walked out with 9 lbs 6awg mag wire as a gift for taking that "useless
> spool"!! God I love america..
>
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