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From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Liz Tuddenham)
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Subject: Re: Instead scopes
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 22:15:50 +0100
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Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:

[...]
> To get nice even spacing in hand-wound coils, I would pull on
> the wire until it gave just a bit, then wind it tightly spaced
> on a mandrel of appropriate size and finally, stick a toothpick,
> or something like that, transversely through the turns, 'screwing'
> it from one end to the other. My coils ended up looking perfectly
> neat.

Another method is to wind two wires tightly side-by-side to get the
correct spacing, then unwind one of them.


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