[Elecraft] Toroid Winding

Wed Dec 11 08:32:01 2002

Just think, others have paid tens of thousands of dollars to replicate a
skill you acquired while building your K2 ;)

73,
Mike K5PU

----- Original Message -----
From: "kevin schuchmann" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Toroid Winding


> 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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