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Winding a Heater Coil
« on: November 16, 2020, 10:15:11 am »
I have recently been in touch with a person that has successfully rewound heater coils for his No.670 Weeden, he has agreed to share his experience:

"I’m happy to share details on how I wired it…
 
I didn’t know what size, so I bought a nichrome wire assortment on Amazon.  I used a caliper to identify the wire that was the closest and that was 26 gauge.
 
I wore rubber gloves so I wouldn’t get oil from my skin on the wire and used a scratch awl to tightly wrap the wire in boiler length strips (about 4”).  I’d pull the scratch awl out and leave about ½’ straight for the return and repeated this 6 times.  Once six coils with ½ between each is complete, I assembled back onto the ceramic, re-connected the wires and voila!  It’s not perfect, but in all honesty, it’s about just as neat as it the wiring was originally."

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This is for information only, use at your own risk, the information came from an engineer working in an experimental lab so knows that he is doing.
Frank C.
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Re: Winding a Heater Coil
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2020, 10:54:38 pm »
Thanks for sharing Frank, looking at Amazon it’s not a very expensive experiment to try with my junk Weeden parts...
Nick