GC Electronics makes a product called Strip-X for stripping enamel from
wire.  You coat the wire with the compound, let it sit a bit, and then wipe
off the varnish.  The stuff works quite well for most types of enamel but
Formvar(r) takes more time to soften.  The stuff stinks, so you want to use
it where there's ventilation.  I haven't used the stuff in 20 years, but I
see on the web that it's still out there.

Bill Krause

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Wire strippers.  Don't use a lighter.  Wrecks the wire.


Shawn Wilton
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Olin Lathrop wrote:
> Martin Klingensmith wrote:
>
>>What is the standard procedure for removing the varnish/coating that
>>is on magnet wire? I find it to be a royal pain.
>
>
> I usually just scrape it with a screw driver or some other object with a
> hard edge.
>
>
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