Plastic Coil Winding Forms

Each turn has 18 gauge tap loop.

Plastic coil winding forms.

Collins tapped coil on ceramic form. The slots extend from the outside perimeter part way the flat disk. A coil form bobbin 20 for winding coil winding wire is a flat disk 22 formed with a plurality of peripheral radial slots 24 25 26 comprising at least one set of n slots spaced around the periphery of the flat disk dividing the bobbin into a respective set of n segments. However the ferrite and powdered iron slug tuned core coils are adjustable.

There may even be coil forms hiding in everyday things. Mostly little ferrites torroids mostly rf stuff. After the epoxy sets firmly the block is removed the ends of the coil wire cut away from the form and the coil form walls are pushed in to free them from the finished coil. Or clumsy taps on the winding of the coil are provided.

There are plastic supply stores and craft stores but it would be good to know what to look or ask for. The combination of the star connections is depicted in form of a circle on the yellow contact bar. My tank coil for the 80m 60m 40m bands consists of a 1 1 2 diameter national xr 5 five prong coil form close wound with 22 enameled magnet wire diameter of about 0 026 to 0 027. Old official coil forms are not readily available and pvc pipe is uuuuugly.

The winding scheme shows the execution of three phase winding with 30 groups of coils at a winding pitch of 1 6 with the same width at a star connection. Vintage plug in 5 pin ceramic coil form 1 75 dia x 2 5 long excellent conditio. What is a low loss material for winding rf coils besides air. Each coil needs two slots.

These can be plastic as they will be subject to no significant heating it s for me to do some playing with forming more complex fields magnetic bottles etc. My 80m 60m 40m tank coil. 1 8uh coil inductor with ceramic form l134 12 99. Figure 2 coil winding forms made from pvc pipe.

Plasti coil is a leading manufacturer of injection molded plastic parts. I searched for coil forms large coil forms etc and have not had exactly stellar results. To strip enameled wire burn it with a lighter or torch and then use 150 grit sandpaper to remove the ash down to the bare copper. Figure 4 1 shows one form of slug tuned adjustable coil.

The form is made of plastic phenolic fiberglass nylon or ceramic materials and is internally threaded. The small holes in the form are used to secure the wire to the form at the beginning and end of the winding. Lot of three 25uh coil inductors with plastic form form l21 14 99.