Thank you to all responsed to my post. Tried to use your suggestions (like heating) but couldn't achieve any positive result. Didn't try any solvents though. Finaly decided it is not worth the efforts and gave up with that transformer. Today bought new toroidal transformer of approximately the same size to replace the old one. This one will be much easier to rewind. Once again, thanks for help anyway. Arkady. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.