Re: Splicing Magnet Wire

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Original poster: "Barton B. Anderson" <bartb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sometime hard to do "nicely" Mike.

I've done this a few times early on. I first tinned both wires with 
solder. Then simply held the new wire in place and heated the joint 
(trying to maintain a steady hand by resting my outer palm edge 
against the coil). If you do a lot of soldering, you get good at 
this. If not, well, you eventually learn the technique (using a 
decent soldering station certainly helps as you can set the temp). 
Something like a Radio Shack plug and go iron isn't the best to use, 
but will do the job (I would first get it right on the work bench 
with a scrap piece).

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "MIKE HARDY" <MHARDY@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I know this has been discussed before, but need details. 
> Unfortunately my new 6" coil (producing 7 foot discharges) , blew a 
> hole in the secondary wire about 5' up from the bottom. I unrolled 
> the wire past the burn, scotchbrighted/exacto knifed the carbon from 
> the form. I sanded a beveled edge on the wire, and tinned it. Now I 
> want to join this with a new wire to re-wind to the original bottom 
> point. My question, is how to hold the 2 pieces of wire in 
> alighnment while soldering? This seems very dificult. Not only from 
> a placement point of view, but from a standpoint of properly heating 
> the junction. As always your helpmis much apreciated