Good Morning, I need to rewind one of the linear loading coils on a Cushcraft 402-CD that was fried by lightning. According to a web article I read, the coil consists of 68 turns of #12 AWG magnet wi
First, make sure your wire is fully annealed. If it's been work hardened at all (as by being coiled and straightened before, or worse, it's been stretched straight under tension), it will be a lot to
A place I worked did a LOT of toroidal core winding. One of the ways of keeping the wire neat was they had a spring loaded clamp, that was lined with what was basically a rough, deep synthetic velvet
I've wound coils on a lathe (I used to build Tesla coils, and putting 1000 turns on a coil is pretty tedious by hand.) The challenge is that once you engage the clutch on the lathe, you have to keep
Thanks everyone for all of the suggestions. I was able to wind the coil by hand by placing the element tip in the bench vise. I just kept working the wire on the 3/4" fiberglass tube until it looked