Re: Funnels

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Original poster: "Jonathan Peakall by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jpeakall-at-madlabs.info>

John,

I like it! I may give that a whack when wrapping my next secondary. Good
idea!

Jonathan Peakall

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Subject: Funnels


 > Original poster: "John Richardson by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jprich-at-up-dot-net>
 >
 > Hello,
 >
 > This is another one of my barely relevant ideas, but here goes.  The
recent
 > thread on secondary winding techniques got me thinking:  Instead of having
 > end caps turned to fit each secondary pvc pipe, why not obtain two large,
 > identical plastic funnels, the ones with a smallish hole in the middle,
but
 > with a large taper.  I have seen them for sale for as low as a buck
apiece,
 > and with one on each end of your homemade "threaded rod" winding jig, it
 > would be an easy matter to adjust back and forth for varying lengths.  The
 > taper of the funnel would also allow different size secondaries to be
 > "chucked up", and the funnels taper guarantees that the pvc is centered on
 > the jig.
 >
 > John Richardson
 >
 >
 >
 >