[Elecraft] stripping insulation from enamel wires

[Don Wilhelm]

Robert,

Those instructions are for heat-strippable wire.  If you have enamel or 
formvar covered wire, that must be mechanically stripped.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/12/2020 10:02 AM, Robert G Strickland via Elecraft wrote:
> Here's an old problem that I've never solved: how to strip the enamel 
> insulation from wires for winding toroids.
> 
> The instruction say:
> -dip in a solder pot which I don't have
> -use a soldering iron to, presumably, burn the insulation off which has 
> never worked for me.
> 
> Leaving soldering pots aside, the hot iron approach has never burned off 
> any insulation even with tip temp's hovering around 1000F. Just doesn't 
> happen. Maybe it's the soldering iron, maybe my method, but whichever, 
> the enamel insulation just sits there. I end up using a file to scrape 
> off the insulation which is tough on the wires and hard to predict when 
> enough is enough. Any insightful hints? Thanks much.
> 
> ...robert
>