Dave,

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 06:34:51 -0500, David VanHorn wrote:

> >
> >
> > If you do have to wind them manually, remember that for every turn you
> > make
> > on the bobbin, the stock wire twists. And this makes it much easier to
> > break. Try to reverse this twist every few tens of turns and I suspect it
> > wouldnt break as aeily.
> 
> 
> Hard to explain in text, but it dosen't twist if you do it right.

I was going to say that!  :-)  I thought of a couple of descriptions to explain:

> If you're rotating the core, and pulling the wire off a spool, it's fine.

- so the bobbin you're winding onto acts like a winch.

> If you have the core still and are running the wire around it, then the wire twists.

- this is using a hand-movement like winding a fishing reel.

> Think of it this way, a reel-to-reel tape never twists.

Quite!  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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