Thanks for all the great input guys! Will dig into these and get something
going more efficient than just manual effort... :)
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Carl Noggle <cn8@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> We used an old ice cream freezer motor for winding a coil 12" dia and 36"
> long. They go about 1 rps, and it took about 30 minutes to wind the coil,
> bifilar with #26 separated with 15# monofilament nylon. A foot pedal is
> almost a must. You have to keep about a 1 or 2 degree negative lead and
> hold a gloved finger on the point where the wire joins the existing turns.
> You can wind into epoxy this way.
>
> Feed the wire off the end of the spool to keep the inertia low. Put a
> sleeve of t-shirt material over the spool so the wire doesn't flop around.
>
> ---Carl
>
> Keep the rest of the freezer for the after-coil party.
>
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> On 9/6/2016 1:16 PM, Matthew Sweeney wrote:
>
>> Motor and foot pedal salvaged from an old electric sewing machine (free
>> junk), geared down and hooked up for two uses:
>>
>> 1. Very slow fixed rpm (5 rpm) used for drying varnished/sealed coil forms
>> prior to winding (and after if desired).
>>
>> 2. Higher speed variable (10rpm+) for winding the coil itself.
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> On Sep 5, 2016 3:18 PM, "Soretna" <illumination00@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> What have been the easiest / most efficient ways you have found to make
>>> coils of varying sizes?
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