Variac rebuild

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Original poster: Blake Hartley <teslaspud@xxxxxxxxx>

All,

Maybe you remember, but a while ago my four amp variac brokedown due
to several burned and broken turns. Seeing Finn Hammers homemade
variac inspired me to dig up the remains to see if it would be
possible to rebuild. I took all of the stuff off except for the core
and windings, and the physical specs of the core are as follows:
height=2.9", ID=2", OD=4.1". It is wound 45 turns until the first tap
point, 206 turns in between the two tap points, and 45 more turns
until the last turn. The inside is two layered, but the outside is
single layered (because the inside radius is ~ half the outside
radius.) I plan to figure out the type of wire and re-wind it in the
same manner as it was wound. would this work, or is there any other
way i should go? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Cheers,

Blake