jigs and reels

[wheelie]

I have the complete kit. I do like the kit, drill and always use it for straitening out wire. Find their are never enough hours in a day to build coils so I mainly use my spools of prebuilt wire. By the time one buys all the spools of wire to try building all the fancy coils you could buy a life time supply of fancy prebuilt wire. Good luck to you. CHEERS!

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

got 30m of SS 316L 40 AWG and 30m of SS 316L 26 AWG on order.
starting simple but will use something slightly more exotic at some point.
will need to clear a flat surface somewhere

Have fun! I think you'll be impressed with the finished product

 

[Don29palms]

One thing I did with mine is the jig need to slide easily acrossed the surface so I put 4 paper clips on the bottom of the jig so the only thing touching the surface is the paper clips and not the whole bottom of the jig. The paper clips act like legs.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

I have the complete kit. I do like the kit, drill and always use it for straitening out wire. Find their are never enough hours in a day to build coils so I mainly use my spools of prebuilt wire. By the time one buys all the spools of wire to try building all the fancy coils you could buy a life time supply of fancy prebuilt wire. Good luck to you. CHEERS!

I agree with you about the cost

One thing I did with mine is the jig need to slide easily acrossed the surface so I put 4 paper clips on the bottom of the jig so the only thing touching the surface is the paper clips and not the whole bottom of the jig. The paper clips act like legs.

great idea! mine slides ok but I do have to help it out occasionally. I'll try that out this weekend

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

One thing I did with mine is the jig need to slide easily acrossed the surface so I put 4 paper clips on the bottom of the jig so the only thing touching the surface is the paper clips and not the whole bottom of the jig. The paper clips act like legs.

Btw, when you use the jig for parallels do you use the metal clapton tool things that hold different sizes of parallel wires?

 

[Don29palms]

Btw, when you use the jig for parallels do you use the metal clapton tool things that hold different sizes of parallel wires?

No I don't use that adapter thing. I don't make triple core wires though.

 

[lupinehorror]

SS wire on the move...eta...who knows...

 

[Don29palms]

got 30m of SS 316L 40 AWG and 30m of SS 316L 26 AWG on order.
starting simple but will use something slightly more exotic at some point.
will need to clear a flat surface somewhere

You're going to need alot more 40g.

 

[Don29palms]

I have the complete kit. I do like the kit, drill and always use it for straitening out wire. Find their are never enough hours in a day to build coils so I mainly use my spools of prebuilt wire. By the time one buys all the spools of wire to try building all the fancy coils you could buy a life time supply of fancy prebuilt wire. Good luck to you. CHEERS!

I understand what you're saying. I think the advantage to making your own wire is you can make wire that you can't buy because nobody makes it.

 

[wheelie]

Till someone hits a good one then everyone sells it and you get no royalties. All gauges of Ribbon, SS, Kanthal, NI80. It all adds up. Plus I have about 8 rolls of premade. A lot of money in wire to make a good one someone has not thought of. LOL