[TowerTalk] Coil Taps Wanted

[WA3GIN]

Your local electrical supply or even Home Despot has small copper adjustible 
clamps that you can use for this purpose. They have a screw in the middle of 
two formed grabbers. So, you don't have to thread the grabber over the loop. 
The phone company's have used them for decades ...

73,
dave
wa3gin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Turner" <dezrat at copper.net>
To: "RICHARD SOLOMON" <w1ksz at q.com>
Cc: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coil Taps Wanted


> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
> 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.
>
> ------------ REPLY FOLLOWS ------------
>
> 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
>
>
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