[sdiy] Enameled wire

[Tim Ressel]

Dear Mr. Batz,

Yes, enameled wire was put here just to honk us off. I
use a sharp exacto knife and scrape the stuff off,
even on fine wires. It takes a certain touch, but it
gets enough off to solder the wire.

--Tim


--- Batz Goodfortune <batzman at all-electric.com> wrote:
> 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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> 
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