Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:45:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: C. Sibley <a37chevy@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Tesla list <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)

With the immediate feedback winding by hand gives, you can get into a rhythm and really get moving.
 
I expect I can approach a turn per second when I'm really rolling.  So a 1200 turn coil would only take 20 minutes.  If course I stop for breaks, occasionally have to make a correction etc.  You can't keep at full speed all the time, hence the 45 minute total...
 
I really think doing smaller coils by hand is the easiest way.  Anything larger than 6" starts to get unmanageable (in my opinion).  Having two people, one to crank and one to lay the wire works pretty good too...
 
Curt.


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Subject: Re: Winding Lathe Construction (fwd)


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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:01:34 -0400
From: Slurp812 <slurp812@xxxxxxxxx>
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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.
>
> --Steve Y."
>
>         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.
>
> Ed
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