Re: Winding technique

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Original poster: "Dr. Resonance" <resonance@xxxxxxxxxx>


It's hard to explain without actually seeing it.

The wire is mounted on a free rolling spool near the floor.  It rises
vertical to a piece of cardboard that is folded to form a V.  The wire runs
thru the cardboard V and changes direction by approx 70-80 degrees and then
travels to the coilform held in the lathe or winder.

The cardboard folds around the wire.  The small clamp allows you to vary
tension on the cardboard causing it to grip tight --- tension is adjustable.

Hope this clears it up.

Dr. Resonance

>
> "A small clipboard type clamp is used around the cardboard V to add
> pressure
> if it's needed for larger gauges of wire.  With most smaller type magnet
> wires in the 18 to 30 AWG range just going around a bend as it travel
> through the V cardboard part is enough tension.  The object here is to
> have
> enough tension on the line (magnet wire) so if you need to stop the
> winder
> the wire won't all go "sprong".
>
> Other coil winders I have seen used commercially are types with a number
> of
> rollers or pulleys over which the wire travels.  5-6 changes of
> direction
> provide enough tension to make it work.
>
> I'm a fan of the cardboard with clip though --- because it always works
> great.
>
> Dr. Resonance"
>
> I must be extra dense because I still don't understand; I'd like to as
> it sounds like something of considerable future use.  What I'm
> visualizing is a piece of cardboard, plane perpendicular to the wire,
> with a V-shaped notch with the wire threading through the vertex of the
> V.  I don't understand where the "clipboard type clamp" is mounted.  In
> looking at Liviu's pictures I can see what he has done (looks simple and
> neat, although I can't see how that small spool of wire is going to
> cover winding of the rest of that big coil), but don't see where the
> clamp would fit either.
>
> Help!
>
> Ed
>
>
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