Re: Help

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Original poster: "Nick Andrews" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

If it does work-harden, you can heat the copper with a torch to re-anneal 
it.  Slower cooling-off is better for this than quick.

Nick A


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>Subject: Re: Help
>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:06:20 -0600
>
>Original poster: "Jim Lux" <jimlux-at-earthlink-dot-net>
>
>First, you have to be facing directly geographic north, at the stroke of
>midnight, after sacrificing a goat to the winding gods...
>
>Nope, no easy way, it's always a pain.
>1) the more you handle the copper, the more it work hardens and gets
>stiffer, which is bad
>2) Touch the tubing as little as possible when taking it out of the box.
>try to use the natural curvature that's already there rather than uncoiling
>and recoiling.
>3) If you make your supports have a bit of a "snap in" feature, it's a lot
>easier.
>4) Nylon cable ties make dandy temporary hold downs as you scoot the turns
>around to make them all even
>5) Don't get the order of your supports wrong.. If you carefully arranged
>them to spiral out 1/4" on each of 4 supports, and you get number 2 and
>number 3 backwards, you're going to fight a long time before figuring out
>what went wrong!
>
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>
> > Original poster: "Emmett Secrest" <secrest2032-at-msn-dot-com>
> >
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> > Okay, I've always thought of myself as a capable do it yourselfer. Years
>of
> > experience with woodworking, metal fabrication, etc.  But tonight when I
> > tried to place the .25" copper tubing in my form, for my primary coil, all
> > my previous experience went out the window and I turned into some kind of
> > greenhorn with two hands that were all thumbs. GOD there has to be an easy
> > way to accomplish this task.  Would someone be so kind as to tell me how
> > this can be accomplished without totally screwing up the roll of copper or
> > without the use of drugs. LOL
> > All advice and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.  I started out
> > trying to feed the tubing through the holes in my supports but quickly
> > found out that wouldn't work.  I then cut the support in half along the
> > centerline of the holes thinking this would ease the problem and that then
> > I could fasten the upper half back down to hold everything in place. This
> > isn't working either since you cant keep the individual turns in place
> > while you try and place the other turns.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Emmett Secrest
> >
> >