RE: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:54:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

It's a preference thing. I've wound all my coils this
way, while other folks prefer to spool it off the end.
I've never broken wire using this method, though I
could see how a smaller gauge wire on a HUGE spool
might cause problems. I bought my AWG 28 and 24 on
much smaller spools, so no problem with inertia. This
is 18, so it's pretty tough, and you might be amazed
at how smoothly the plastic spool spins on the 1"
steel bar. I also never had to stop fast, and could
have my wife coast to a stop when I got tired.

Adam

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> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:13:43 -0600
> From: S&JY <youngs@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: RE: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)
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> Just a tip about placement of your spool of wire: 
> The picture below shows
> it normally unwinding by spinning the entire reel of
> wire.  I prefer to set
> the spool vertically on the floor and pull it off
> the reel over the top end
> of it.  This reduces the likelihood of breaking the
> wire as it spins up the
> heavy reel, or having a mess of wire as the heavy
> reel coasts down, if the
> reel is mounted horizontally.  The twisting of the
> wire coming off a
> vertically placed reel causes no problems at all.
> 
> --Steve Y.
> 
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:54 PM
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> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:54:32 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Yurtle Turtle <yurtle_t@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Subject: Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)
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> Can't get much cheaper than this:
> 
>
http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil01.jpg
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http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil02.jpg
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http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil03.jpg
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http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil04.jpg
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http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil05.jpg
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http://www.hot-streamer.com/adam/bigass_coil/coil06.jpg
> 
> Built almost entirely out of material I had on hand.
> I
> used wife power to wind it, then used the drill
> motor
> and speed controller to coat it.
> 
> Adam
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> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:50:32 -0500
> > From: Crispy <crispy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Winding Lathe Construction
> > 
> > Hello,
> > Does anyone have any good plans for building a
> > simple, cheap lathe to
> > wind a coil on a 6" PVC sewer pipe form?  I need
> to
> > be able to buy
> > everything online, including the motor.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Chris
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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