[TowerTalk] Coil Taps Wanted

[Bill Turner]

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On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:08:13 +0000, RICHARD SOLOMON <w1ksz at q.com>
wrote:

>I guess I could try to find some 3/8" soft aluminum and make some, but that seems like
>a project trying to find that stuff.

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Your local hobby shop will have brass strips of that dimension that
would work fine. I have used them to make taps for a tank coil. 

Carefully bend it around the wire to be tapped, clamp it with a
hemostat or the equivalent and drill a hole for a #4 nut and bolt.
Leave one of the "tails" a bit long and drill a hole in that to solder
the wire. This thin material is hard to drill with a standard twist
drill, so I use the drill bit known as a "Unibit". They are perfect
for drilling very thin stock.

Good luck.

73, Bill W6WRT