[Elecraft] stripping insulation from enamel wires

[QRP5W at roadrunner.com]

The old tried and true method is to use an X-acto knife to scrape the
insulation off with. Simple, not very elegant but it always works.

72

Howard Kraus, K2UD

	-----------------------------------------From: "Robert G Strickland
via Elecraft" 
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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Sent: Friday June 12 2020 10:03:58AM
Subject: [Elecraft] stripping insulation from enamel wires

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

 -- 
 Robert G Strickland, PhD ABPH - KE2WY
 rcrgs at verizon.net.usa
 Syracuse, New York, USA
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