Stripping for enameled wire

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  1. Zampotech

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    I have to make output transformers sometimes. The most vile part of the job is to remove the varnish from the enameled wires.

    I read a little special literature, worked a little with my head and hands and got a small and convenient tool.

    The work of this tool can be viewed in the video.

     
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    Good stuff. Beats the lighter.
     
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    Much better. Lighter burns varnish. And this device frees copper from varnish. The varnish peels off like a boot from a foot.

    The photo was taken with USB microscope

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    It's not a job I had to do as yet, but that looks to be a really neat tool. The kind of tool you really bless if you have an unpleasant job to do more than twice.

    But... Isn't "enamelled" wire enamelled? Another of life's disillusionments?
     
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    I will answer your question as I understand it. Perhaps I misunderstood him, then you correct me

    I use a wire covered with two layers of heat-resistant varnish. It used to be called lacquered wire. Now called enameled wire. But it's the same thing.
     
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    Very nice, are you planning to share how this works?
     
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    The principle of operation is instantaneous heating of a thin surface layer of wire. At the point of contact between the varnish and copper there is a sharp decrease in adhesion and swelling of the lacquer layer. After processing, the varnish is removed from the wire as a separate tube.

    Heating is due to a veri powerful high-frequency magnetic field.

    Recently I manufactured for factory of transformers of a few such devices.

    They look like this

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    Clever. Foucault's currents in skin layer.
     
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    Very nice, does this work for very thin braided cables (AWG 30 or so) or cables already connected to an electrodynamic transducer?
     
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    Stripping works with single enameled wire from 0.2 to 0.5 mm. Can handle wire up to 0.65 mm diameter, but this is not a typical mode.

    Not working with Litz wire and with the wire in the other isolation.

    30 AWG is a wire with a diameter of 0.2546 mm. If this wire is single and enameled, it will work.

    I once made two experimental devices for thick rectangular copper wires. After the sale, my customers fell silent. There are no reviews or complaints. I do not know the fate of these devices. I hope they're all right.
     
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    Thank you. Excuse my ignorance. Whilst I know there is something called enamel paint, enamel, to me, having done some jewellery hobbying, primarily means glass.

    Wow, you made this thing! Respect...

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