01-11-2012, 08:16 AM
Neat winder David but I could never make it: too much metal bashing and lathe parts for me. Fortunately, not being a Ham I have never had need to wind wave coils. For radios hand traversed ('scramble') winding has always been amply good enough. This sometimes gets the claim levelled at it that turns from one layer may drop down a layer or two and be subjected to more voltage. That is compared to layer winding with paper interleave (often needed with thin wires to keep the new layer 'level'). However modern wire (and I would never use old) has insulation of up to 1000V so scramble winding doesnt have a problem.
Gary
Gary







