RE: salvaging wire

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Original poster: "Dave Halliday" <dh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

A bit of a heads up -- you will need to use either a MAPP and forced air
or Oxy-Acetylene heat source as Copper melts at 1981.4 °F and Propane
burners top out at around 1,800 max.

And do not use your metal cutting bandsaw to cut the windings out -- and
don't ask me how I know this...

Dave


> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 10:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: salvaging wire
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> Original poster: "Thomas Coyle" <zxcasd@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Or do what I plan to do... build a forge, chop up the copper, and
> melt it into ingots for high-amperage contacts or what have you. :)
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> I have all the parts, now I just need a big space far away
> from neighbors...
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> On 3/2/06, Tesla list
> <<mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Original poster: "Christoph Bohr"
> <<mailto:cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>cb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >
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> Hello Alan.
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> With most motors, the wire is wound into
> a loop shape, then bend into a more
> rectangular shape and the long parts, that
> go through the laminations, are packed into insulating
> paper, then driven into the slots of the lamination
> pretty hard and then impregnated very thoroughly.
> When replacing a defective winding
> u usually remove the old one with a hammer or similar,
> in most cases it will not be possible to save any usable
> length of wire. Another problem is that parts of the winding
> will be webbed together, so you will have a hard time
> removing single rings of wire.
> If you have to salvabe wire, you might have more luck with
> transformers or bobbins from contractors or magnets.
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> IMO not worth the effort.
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> regards
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> Christoph Bohr
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> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 8:01 PM
> Subject: salvaging wire
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>  > Original poster:
> <mailto:ajones18@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>ajones18> @bellsouth.net
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>  > I
> was wondering if there is a way to
> salvage wire from old motors. I've
>  > looked at these lots of times and don't see a way to get
> the wire out
>  > whole. It seems the wire is wound through the laminations
> and would have
>  > to be pulled out a loop at a time.
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>  > Just hate to throw the wire away when a coil could be
> wound from it.
>  >
>  > Alan
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