[Elecraft] Toroid Winding

Tue Dec 10 23:54:01 2002

Hi Guys,
   check out http://www.gormanmachine.com/prod.html they also have a video
of a toroid being wound

73's
Kevin
WA6FWF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mychael Morohovich AA3WF" <[email protected]>
To: "Steve Lawrence" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Toroid Winding


> Steve AA8AF asked," ...I've wondered all along...... Do you do your
winding
> entirely by hand?  Or is there some clever,  multi-buck
> machine/tool/robot/fixture/process that winds toroids when fed  cores and
> wires???? Just an engineer having trouble imagining an automated
> solution..."
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> --
>
> Hi, Steve-
>
> My understanding is that such a clever beast indeed exists, but due
largely
> to the fact that "multi-buck" describes it quite accurately (coupled with
my
> wife's inevitable objection to finding a robot in the living room), it
finds
> no shelter here under this roof . I do the winding and tinning the old
> fashioned way.
>
> Like you, I also have trouble picturing exactly how such a mechanism would
> work, though I have an idea. If anyone has actually seen one close up and
> can explain away the magic, please feel free to clue us in. I get asked
this
> question regularly and would love having a proper answer.
>
> Tnx,
>
> Mychael AA3WF
>
>
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