How to wrap PERFECT spaced coils and dual coils the Mad Scientist way

[Mad Scientist]

How to make a matched pair of perfect spaced coils the easy way. I don't know why I hadn't thought of this before.

Take two strands of whatever wire you are using.

Line them up in parallel.

Wrap both around a mandrel side by side as if making a contact coil with them. Keep the wraps tight and don't allow the wires to twist or overlap each other. If you are doing this by hand, holding the ends with a forcep or tweezer is best.

Straighten the legs and make sure they are not overlapping (cut them as short as possible after doing the wraps so they do not overlap or "tangle" with each other.

While the coils are still on the mandrel, carefully grab the "upper" leg of the pair and "unscrew" it from its mate, right off the mandrel. As long as the legs are not tangled, it will unscrew from its mate just as if it were a bolt on a screw.

You now have two perfectly identical, perfectly spaced coils. Eureka lol.

If you are making a single coil build, throw the other coil away lol.

 

[proteckt3d]

Hm, yes, this method might also allow to make a coil with spaces between wraps even smaller by using a second thinner wire instead of the same gauge

 

[f1vefour]

This is how you wrap a staggered clapton.

 

[proteckt3d]

This is how you wrap a staggered clapton.

How is a staggered clapton wrapped?

 

[Mad Scientist]

How is a staggered clapton wrapped?

Wrap a Clapton with a double (two strands side by side) over wrap. Remove one of the over wrap strands. Use two of those to then wrap a stapled / staggered Clapton.

 

[proteckt3d]

Ok, I see. I have to come up with something like that too

 

[Tom Forde]

Truth. It is the perfect method & how I've been doing it! That's 24g spaced with 24g duals on a dark horse (very old & used dark horse). You can even go triple parallel or more for different spacing variations!
Edit: as for staggered claptons & staggered/fused claptons, it's the same method yet you definitely don't want your wraps to overlap...

PITA to make with just the Clapton in the center, I had to do the wraps by hand because the side strands would start to spin and stick together to form a suture style coil like this fail: