Re: Homemade coil winding lathe

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Original poster: "Gary  Weaver" <gary350-at-earthlink-dot-net> 

I wind my coils in the lathe.  I let the spool of wire spin on a rod clamped
in the vise on the other side of the shop 20 ft away. I have the spool lined
up with the starting point on my coil and after winding the coil the angle
of the wire is less than 1 degree angle running across the shop to the
spool.  The 20 ft distance between the spoon and the coil is helpful for 2
reasons.  When the lathe takes off it won't jerk the wire and brake it as
easy and when you stop the lathe the spool tends to keep spinning and wind
pile up in the same spot on the floor.  With the spoon far away the slack in
the wire sags down as the spool un rolls when the lathe stops it keeps the
wire pile on the floor from all being in one spot.   If the wire piles up in
one spot it kinks easy when you try to roll it up again.  I like to put a
piece of tape on the coil ever few inches just incase something goes wrong I
don't end up with a trashed coil from a runaway unwind.  Keep the lathe
running at about 60 rpm I can stick pieces of tape on the coil at it turns.
3 coats of polyurethane in the lathe 1 coat each day is easy.

Gary



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Subject: Re: Homemade coil winding lathe


 > Original poster: "Jim Mitchell" <electrontube-at-sbcglobal-dot-net>
 >
 > Hi, ?no name?
 >
 > Eh, yes I see a problem.  The spool should be able to move freely so you
can
 > keep a short distance of wire from the spool to the pipe, or else you
might
 > get overlapping problems.
 >
 > I have a winding jig also,  I wouldn't call it a "lathe" per say, as it
 > doesn't do any cutting ;-)
 >
 > Regards - Jim Mitchell
 > ----- Original Message -----
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 > To: <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Sent: Sunday, February 29, 2004 6:02 PM
 > Subject: Homemade coil winding lathe
 >
 >
 >  > Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
 >  >
 >  >
 >
<http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com/articles/winding_lathe/>http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com
 > /articles/winding_lathe/
 >  >
 >  > I made a coil winding lathe today, looks to be promising. I'm a bit too
 >  > tired to wind it today considering I wired the garage for 240 VAC at 30
 >  > amps and built this lathe in under 2 hours. Can any1 see any flaws in
my
 >  > design?
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