Re: stripping magnet wire

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Original poster: "Christoph Bohr" <cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Hello.

I used to use a knife for stripping
magnet wire, but shunned the practice.
I noticed that even a very small circular
scratch can make the wire break in this place
over time under certain conditions e.g. large
temperature variations or mechanical stress.
However, for just trowing something together on
the bench for tests I still use the knife, but mostly not
in critical places.
The heat approach is easy with small wire gauges,
but can lead to breaks if the wire was to heavily heated,
to much loss of material and varying hardness of the copper
prior and after heating.
Though it can be teadious task , fine sandpaper with the wire
laid out on a hard surface seems to give a better result
or of course the solvents, which I haven't used.
Just my two cents

Christoph Bohr


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Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:24 PM
Subject: RE: stripping magnet wire


> Original poster: "Ralph Zekelman" <gridleak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Justin,
>
> Yes, do it the old-fashioned way. Place the wire on your index finger and
> scrape it (the wire) with a sharp knife or a razor blade.
>
> Ralph
>
> Original poster: "David Rieben" <drieben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Justin,
>
> Just scrape off hte insulation with the edge of
> a knife blade. I believe that's the way "most" of
> us do it. :^)
>
> David
>
>
>