Thanks Fred for this is a marvelous idea on toroid winding. It will also be of
great assistance to someone like myself with limited dexterity in my left hand
as it sounds like this method will work quite nicely. This will be filed away
for future reference. Thanks.
72/71 de "rc" kc5wa
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Toroid winding. VERY easy. I took a small wooden dowel and sharpened it, not
all the way, with a pencil sharpener making it into a cone but no sharp point.
You could use a pencil and not sharpen it to a point. I cut a small groove the
length of it. This I support vertically in a vise clamped to my desk.
The toroid goes over the dowel. The wire is threaded down the groove. The
dowel holds the toroid, allows one to easily pull the windings tight, in fact
you can pull it too tight (too tight is when you break the toroid), pressing
the toroid down on the dowel squeezes the windings tight against the toroid on
the inside, too. Between putting on a winding, it is hands free, the dowel
holds the toroid, wires tight, everything. It is very easy to manipulate the
windings to make them machine-like evenly distributed around the core when the
core is over the dowel.
T
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