Re: winding the primary?

["Barton B. Anderson" <tesla123-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)]

Hi Sundog, Mike, 

Tesla list wrote: 
>
> Original poster: "sundog" <sundog-at-timeship-dot-net> 
>
> Hi Mike, all 
>
>  My "secret" weapon is a $20 bag of zipties from Home Depot.  It's a big bag 
> 'o 1000 of 'em.  Drill 2 little holes, 1 on each side of the support, on 
> opposite sides of the tubing, and run a ziptie thru the bottom and over the 
> tube.  That keeps the ziptie head under the primary, and out of sight.




I fully agree here. Zip ties are quick and easy. The way I did it was to drill
just one hole through the runner directly under the primary winding points. Run
the zip tie up through the hole - around the primary winding - and back down
through the same hole locking the zip tie on the bottom of the runner - lastly
clipping off the excess. Also, when winding the primary, this allows the
primary-to-runner point to be locked in position without movement allowing you
to work the next runner (that's the key to a nice looking primary, IMHO). This
keeps the primary perfectly centered in position and privides a litle standoff
from the runner itself. There is also little chance of indenting the copper
tubing from too much zip torque. I used 1/4" zip ties and 1/4" drill bit. 

Bart 

>
>   
>   Why 1000 of them?  They are as good as Duct Tape.  >From TC work to holding
>
> probably half my dirtbike together, nothin' seems to work better ;) 
>
>                                Caio! 
>                                  Sundog 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Tesla list [<mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com] 
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 12:37 AM 
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
> Subject: winding the primary? 
>
> Original poster: "homie" <ff-at-hotmail-dot-com> 
>
> hi all, 
>
> i am winding my primary and it is really starting to hack me off! i am using 
> 1/4in od copper tube. it is a pancake coil that is 9 turns and it wont stay 
> in place does anyknow "the KEY" to getting a perfet primary? i have seen 
> some real nice ones and i just cant see how. some say just work 
> slowly...well that dount seem to work i haev spent more time on the primary 
> then i spent winding the secondary. 
>
> also i am looking for a varic ya i have seen them for sale but ya know $$ is 
> always a issue and they are likr 160 dollers does that seem right? does 
> anyone know how i can optian one for cheaper or is this as cheap as they 
> come? 
>
> thanks alot, 
>
> MIKE