Re: Funnels

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Original poster: "Steve Cook by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Steve-at-g8cyerichmond.freeserve.co.uk>

When I used to do wood turning I used a very similar idea except that the
cones were turned from wood, this looks a lot simpler.
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Subject: Re: Funnels


 > 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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 > Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 6:54 PM
 > 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
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  >
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