Just had a call from a prospective client for a K1 build, who was (as are many) hesitant about winding the ever-elusive little toroid inductors.
I lost him as a client when I told him about my little clothespin tool for holding the core while winding, and wasn't sorry at all to have spoiled that sale, since he's now encouraged to tackle it himself, and that helps develop the pool of talent for building, one of the (sometimes unstated) goals of kits. This is a tool I made at JPL, when I had to wind some little inductors for our Line Impedance Stabilization Networks [LISNs] in the EMC Lab, and have repeated and used for Elecraft building, since the smallest cores can be hard on the fingers. Here's my blog entry about it, with a photo; <http://wa6dzs.blogspot.com/2009/12/toroid-clip-from-clothespin.html>. Use it in good health, and enjoy! A warm and happy (building?) holiday to all! 3-2-1-melt solder... -- '---O=o=O---' 73, Phil Barnes-Roberts WA6DZS < Mailto:pbarnrob at acm dot org > The naive know not their mistakes. -And repeat them. The foolish blame others for their mistakes. -And repeat them. The intelligent profit from their mistakes. The wise profit from the mistakes of others. --Rick Berry, /Stepping Off The Mat/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
