Re: recycling copper for coils (3.00 / 0) (#15) by blueyonder (windwoodgood at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Feb 20th, 2008 at 07:30:40 PM MST (User Info)

thanks oztules.  its sum thing i must do soon to help get the kinky bits out.  maybe one day i will bye a reel of nice new wire. strait as a arrow.  but till then i will make up a thing like you have done.  to be honest ive seen things like that before .they were called pre-formers.i think.  and were  used in the wire rope manufacturing trade .   copper wire is tough stuff.   for mbeland  depending whare you live in the world .wire size is in AWG. or metric.   metric speaks for itself.  with AWG you can do a search on here . loads of charts that will explain.  thin sheet metal also has a gauge .   at first it dont make sence .but once you get the hang of it its no problem.   in the UK  we had SWG  which is different again from AWG but now were metric.   but we still measure every thing in thu. thats parts of a inch.   i will add a few pics of my winding set-up.   a heavy one to wind the loose wire on. then wind it again onto a small wood drum.  then from there i can wind a coil.   its all good stuff recycling.   you done a nice job oztules on that rewind . stop the fish going off.   and when we die the government want to recycle us. or bits of us.    i just want to go to the bone orchard and push up a few daisy's.    but weather i do or not i will never know.    now i got to go and look at the moon . its a eclipse tonight.   moon -earth -sun.  hope i dont start howling .    you wont see the eclipse if your in aus .  but north and south America can.  as well as Europe.  its a moon eclipse not a sun.  or even a lunar one.   better get my telescope out .and watch for the clouds.     if its not got cloud cover and i get a pic  that looks good .maybe i can post it here.    now if i can just get my mill in front of the moon it will look great .    and my next project .looking inside old tvs lol.       its a ill wind that dos no good

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