[Elecraft] Advice needed on stripping enameled wire

[David Pratt]

In a recent message, David Ferrington <M0XDF at Alphadene.co.uk> wrote ...
>Use a methylated sprits (not sure of name in US) burner to remove the enamel
>- keep it in the blue part of the flame (the hottest and no soot) and it
>should come clean. Use a light rub with emery paper if you think it might be
>tarnished. Then tin.

In the UK domestic radio & TV industry we used to strip and tin Litz 
wire by heating it over a methylated spirit burner to red heat and then 
quickly dipping the wire into a small container of methylated spirit. 
This will likely work with enamelled copper wire.  A word of caution 
though, this procedure makes the copper very soft and likely to break 
before it is tinned.
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David G4DMP
Leeds, England, UK
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