yeah I'm looking for clear heat shrink right now as a matter of fact
wow I really like this picture, makes me want to engrave something
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wow I really like this picture, makes me want to engrave something
yeah I'm looking for clear heat shrink right now as a matter of fact
You know, a lot of motors use enameled wire in the magnets. Lots of other ruses for enameled wire.
Maybe brush clear nail enamel on the wire ?
Actually, modern wires are enamel, but polymer film, like polyurethane or polyester.
A clear polyurethane could easily be put on the wires before final installation.
But that's for tight wound coils that have to deal with a lot of heat and the whole coil winding process.
I really think a nail enamel would be fine. Maybe use read so it doesn't look like bare wire. Apply after shaping but before soldering in.
Well, there's that whole fire issue with Kapton insulated wires.
So It's not a wire I think about.
yeah the white sheep has met with a rather gruesome and untimely "death by machine crash"
Ok, I've already put up a post showing the new updated faceplate for this batch that corrects a few minor cosmetic imperfections of the original design. well now I'm working on building the internals for this current batch and I"m also updating the way I wire and assemble the internals of this mod.
one of the things that was critiqued on the first version of this mod was that the internals looked a little sloppy so I decided to redo all of the internal cosmetics, redo all of the wiring with silver coated beryllium copper solid wire to make the internals less messy looking
now I know some may still complain about the look of my home made battery terminals but that's one thing I refuse to compromise on. I could buy ready made battery contacts that will look much prettier but they also pretty much all suck. there all made for AA and C cell batteries, none of them are made for the 15 an 20 amps our regulated mods require so they add significant voltage drop.
I make my own heavy duty battery contacts with all silver contact points on both the negative and positive battery contact areas, my negative spring is .040" silver coated beryllium copper spring wire, not some nickel plated steel spring music wire like most commercial battery contacts, so yeah they look a little home made... I'm going for performance over looks on this one guys and I don't think they look so bad now really, do they ?
merry christmas everyone
I have some clear heat shrink coming to me tomorrow, I have some kapton tape but that might look more messy on the bends and stuff.
the reason I don't use any kind of enamel coated wire here is because I use a much higher grade silver wire.
I have some clear heat shrink coming to me tomorrow, I have some kapton tape but that might look more messy on the bends and stuff.
the reason I don't use any kind of enamel coated wire here is because I use a much higher grade silver wire.
Merry Christmas John, Gigd, Rudy and all of the rest of ya
Hence I said coat it yourself instead of buying pre-coated.
That said, the difference in copper and silver in that task is negligible.
merry christmas everyone
I have some clear heat shrink coming to me tomorrow, I have some kapton tape but that might look more messy on the bends and stuff.
the reason I don't use any kind of enamel coated wire here is because I use a much higher grade silver wire.
I really appreciate that you look out for our safety first and foremost
I really appreciate that you look out for our safety first and foremost
Indeed - form follows function, as architects and designers say. I'd rather be bulletproof than stylish, if it came to that.
The beauty of turbo's work is that we get both... in spades.
Happy New Year all!!
Happy New Year everyone
I wish you all a very happy and healthy 2017!
I really expected to have this batch of mods ship out by this week between christmas and new year at the latest but I guess I underestimated just how much the holidays and family crap would completely interfere with that plan
that said I do expect to have them all done this week and hopefully all shipped out by the end of this week. 1/2 of them are polished already now and tomorrow I should be able to finish polishing the rest and move on to final assembly.
the new heat treating process and equipment I've developed and built has been a big success and the ultem is polishing up beautifully with the vapor polishing process with absolutely no signs of any kind of stress cracks or material flaws that has caused so many rejects in the past. getting to the point of crystal clear as glass ultem has been a huge challenge and honestly a very complicated procedure but I've finally got the whole process down to a science at this point. you can also easily see how the rear squonk hole winds up falling right at your fingertip now that it's transparent, a few pics
I really expected to have this batch of mods ship out by this week between christmas and new year at the latest but I guess I underestimated just how much the holidays and family crap would completely interfere with that plan
the new heat treating process and equipment I've developed and built has been a big success and the ultem is polishing up beautifully with the vapor polishing process with absolutely no signs of any kind of stress cracks or material flaws that has caused so many rejects in the past. getting to the point of crystal clear as glass ultem has been a huge challenge and honestly a very complicated procedure but I've finally got the whole process down to a science at this point. you can also easily see how the rear squonk hole winds up falling right at your fingertip now that it's transparent, a few pics
Oh man that's beautiful turbo, great work sir!Happy New Year everyoneI wish you all a very happy and healthy 2017!
I really expected to have this batch of mods ship out by this week between christmas and new year at the latest but I guess I underestimated just how much the holidays and family crap would completely interfere with that planthat said I do expect to have them all done this week and hopefully all shipped out by the end of this week. 1/2 of them are polished already now and tomorrow I should be able to finish polishing the rest and move on to final assembly.
the new heat treating process and equipment I've developed and built has been a big success and the ultem is polishing up beautifully with the vapor polishing process with absolutely no signs of any kind of stress cracks or material flaws that has caused so many rejects in the past. getting to the point of crystal clear as glass ultem has been a huge challenge and honestly a very complicated procedure but I've finally got the whole process down to a science at this point. you can also easily see how the rear squonk hole winds up falling right at your fingertip now that it's transparent, a few pics
I took a few video's to show you guys the vapor polishing in action. each piece takes multiple dips into the chamber with a bit of flash off time in-between dips.
here is a video of a door going through the process without all of the pauses for flash off time edited out of it yet.
I'm going to edit up a better video showing full bodies and faceplates and black ultem polishing too, but for now this should give you a good idea of how it works
the ultem can't stay in the chamber longer than 3 or 4 seconds at a time or it will build up too much vapor condensation on it's surface and start to make drips or runs, in a lot of ways it's kinda like spraying on a clear coat in that you need to spray many light coats and build up the clear coat evenly, here is the same, many small dips to build up the polishing out to an even full glass finish.
here is a video of a door going through the process without all of the pauses for flash off time edited out of it yet.
I'm going to edit up a better video showing full bodies and faceplates and black ultem polishing too, but for now this should give you a good idea of how it works
the ultem can't stay in the chamber longer than 3 or 4 seconds at a time or it will build up too much vapor condensation on it's surface and start to make drips or runs, in a lot of ways it's kinda like spraying on a clear coat in that you need to spray many light coats and build up the clear coat evenly, here is the same, many small dips to build up the polishing out to an even full glass finish.
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