Hi Ted,
I'm not 100% sure. The whole situation was a very oily mess, despite
my best efforts to clean the lead with alcohol. Also, it is possible
the windings are actually aluminium!
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Greg.
>
> This is a very odd thing to hear. The secondary connection to the core is
> normally to a lug that is riveted to the core. I've simply cut the wire
> where it enters that lug taken off a few mm of the insulation and soldered
> this to a tag strip lug from a using another point on the tag strip to act a
> s a soldering point to the now unused riveted lug on the secondary to
> provide stability
>
> Are you saying the secondary wire will not solder because it has been in oil
> ??. IOf so alcohol; cleaning and a scrapping of the insulation should work.
>
> Rgds
> Ted in NZ
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thanks for the tips everyone.
>
> Unfortunately my first attempt to de tap my MOTs was a disaster and only
> resulted in me fatiguing the lead til it snapped. Try as I might, I just
> couldn't get the solder to stick. I think bigger, higher quality MOTs with
> thicker windings might help, as would doing it before they were covered in
> oil (of course). I'm currently assessing how I want to go forward on this.
> Not really sure if I want to go through that again!
>
>
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