Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:01:34 -0400
From: Slurp812 <slurp812@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

Heres my setup, well it was anyway the thing was dismantled after I
was done. I took 3 hours to WIND it, but I took breaks every 20
minutes or so. So kudos to the guy who wound his by hand in 45, you
are like a machine er something!!


http://www.flickr.com/photos/slurp812/276563309/in/set-72157594444711276/

On 9/21/07, Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:41:52 -0700
> From: Ed Phillips <evp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 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.
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> --Steve Y."
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>         Standard practice for small wire.  When it gets bigger than say #20 things get more awkward but that size won't break unless you're really careless.
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> Ed
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