Re: Soldering Litz wire

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Original poster: "Cougercat by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <felix1063-at-attbi-dot-com>

I have some Litz wire where when I want to strip it, I immurse the end in a
small glob of rosin core solder.  The insulation will melt or burn off, and
the solder will tin the strands together.

--jeff


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Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: RE: Soldering Litz wire


> Original poster: "Lau, Gary by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
<Gary.Lau-at-hp-dot-com>
>
> I just tried the aspirin approach.  The aspirin melted at a very low
> temperature, I had a boiling vat of molten aspirin, but this had no effect
> on the enamel insulation.
>
> The wire I'm attempting to tin is a bundle of 259 strands of #38 AWG,
> equivalent to #7AWG, about 1/4" diameter.  I also tried the
> heating-up-in-a-propane-flame approach, but it just made a mess of the
> bundle.  I was successful in using an abrasive fiberglass(?) brush to
> scrape away the enamel on a small number of strands at a time, just
tedious.
>
> Regards, Gary Lau
> MA, USA
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