Re: [sdiy] Enameled wire

[Roman]

Hi Batz,

1.
strip the enamel with a sharp knive. It's hard to do it on .1mm but possible.

2.
if you need to connect 2 thin wires, just twist them together and put into flame of a lighter. The copper will melt and bond the wires for good.

3.
get a paint remover or similar poisonous solvent. Put the wires in it for some time and enamel will go of easily. We used to do that to make chokes. It doesn't make sense if you need only few wires to strip, but for 100s of chokes it's good. Bad thing - it solders not so good, and must be soldered quick afterwards.

4.
drill a hole in iron plate and put the wire thru it. Then scratch the enamel by the hole edges holding the wire on both sides of the plate. This is best done before wounding if you know exact wire length needed.
IMHO it's always better to remove enamel and solder wire ends before it's wound.

Roman

---- Wiadomość Oryginalna ----
Od: Batz Goodfortune <batzman at all-electric.com>
Do: synth <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Data: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 13:27:43 +0930
Temat: [sdiy] Enameled wire

>Y-ellow all.
>         Something I've always hated is enamel wire. How 'n' hell do you 
>strip the enamel off? Any suggestions? Especially for thin winding wire sub 
>.5mm .1mm.
>
>Finally I've wound my first home made S/PDIF transformer (thanks muchley to 
>Steve Ridley, Peter Ullrich and co. It's .5mm winding wire and although 
>I've managed to strip and tin most of the diameter of the wire, there's 
>always little bits of enamel left.
>
>It's not so bad with larger diameter wire because I can see it to scrape it 
>off but this fine stuff does my brain in. Even with a magnifying lamp.
>
>So any suggestions would be most appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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