[ARC5] [Boatanchors] Coils and the winding thereof

[Edward Swynar]

Hi Guys,

Speaking of smells rekindling old memories...

Years ago I used to coat my coils with commercially-available dope. Fast
forward to a few years ago: my wife is applying clear nail polish to the
talons on the ends of her fingers...

Voila! That smell! Now I remember---it's EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE OLD COIL
DOPE I USED TO USE!!!

Moral of the story: apply two coats of clear nail polish onto ALL your
coils. It's permanent, effective, and works just exactly like the stuff from
days of yore (NOTE: I especially like the cheap buck-a-bottle stuff that I
find at the local Dollar Store).

~73!~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Tauson" <wh7hg.hi at gmail.com>
To: "arc5" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>; "boatanchors"
<boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; "milsurplus" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Coils and the winding thereof


> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Carl<km1h at jeremy.mv.com> wrote:
> > Hold the windings in place with Q Dope which is era correct. Even
National had it in their
> > 1934 catalog ands its use in QST goes back long before that. GC sells it
today.
>
> It's still available?  Ooooh, cool!  I gots ta gets me some!  Thanks!
>
> > Id still stay far away from varnish or shellac around RF. Use that stuff
on
> > the wood base or panel.
>
> Both were used in a number of places including coil forms and wiring.
> I used varnish to hold coils in place (as mentioned in the initial
> post) but not to coat them.  On the other hand, the wire used was
> bare, enameled magnet wire or DCC enameled wire (and in more than one
> case, Litz wire) which ever I had on hand at the time.  The coatings
> didn't seem to make a lot of difference nor did sealing some of them -
> notably chokes - in wax afterward.  I used Q dope but not all the
> time.  It was a "special cases" material used when nothing else would
> do.  I can't remember the criteria that had to be met before I got out
> my little bottle but apparently they were strict.  :-)
>
> In reading and participating in this thread as well as the parallel
> ones and the one on the old caps, I'm finding long forgotten memories
> coming back - some of the rare good ones from a childhood & teenhood
> that was far from good by any definition of the term.  (That gets into
> areas that I'd really rather not discuss on an open forum.)  The fact
> that some involve letting smoke out of places that smoke aughta not be
> let out doesn't make them any less good.  Smelly, though. Definitely
> smelly.
>
> No matter what else happened, though, those memories could not be
> taken from me and now they're coming back - smells and all - and I'm
> finding a lot of comfort in them.  Considering what else is happening
> in my life (specifically with Noelle), that comfort is more than
> welcome.
>
> Carl mentioned how interesting it is how our minds work that we can
> easily shift from automatic everything rigs to using something
> originally made before some of us were born.  I find it interesting
> what we sometimes find as comforting.  I don't drink except the
> occasional bit of Jameson's in my coffee (occasional: the fifth I
> bought New Year's Eve is still in play.) so this seems to be my
> substitute.  :-)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael, WH7HG
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