On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 02:11:24 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

The last cotton covered wire I used was around 1970. I bought a large
spool surplus to make a bunch of heavy duty degaussing coils for early
color TV sets. 300 turns of 17 AWG DCC, double enameled wire that was
surplused by Picker X-ray, and sold to Mendelson's, in Dayton Ohio. They
had hundreds of partial spools, and I think they still had some in 1987,
(The last time I was at their store in Dayton, Ohio) It was still listed
in the last belden and Alpha catalogs I received, but I would have to
dig them out to get the dates.
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Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida


Just curious. I got some spools from a friend, but don't really know
when it is an advantage to use the cotton covered wire instead of the
normal enamelled copper wire. Used it for some VLF purposes to make
lower self capacitance of coils, but appying single strand wire was
just to use what was available instead of multistranded wire

73
Jan-Martin, LA8AK
http://home.online.no/~la8ak/c.htm
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