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Topic: Pickup Winding |
Larry Phleger
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DuBois, PA
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 5:15 am |
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| Does anybody have information on building a pickup winding machine? I am specifically interested in any info regarding adding a counter to count the number of turns. |
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Jim Sliff
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Lawndale California, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 6:03 am
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| Do a google search - a few months ago I stumbled on a site that had exactly that. I don't know if it's still up of not. Ithink most industrial supply houses have mechanical, if not digital, counters that count numbers of rotations. |
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Papa Joe Pollick
From:
Swanton, Ohio
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 8:05 am
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| Stewmac has a winder,#1465.$349.I know you are just looking for the counter,but thought I would give a heads-up on this.PJ |
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Chris Lucker
From:
Los Angeles, California USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 10:36 am
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Google. There is a site that has several winders shown and explains how to make one. You can make a coil mount and wind pickups using a drill press, a lathe, or even a 78 record player. That's what I used the only time I did it. You can probably use the left rear wheel of your car and with some fancy math equation use your odometer to figure out how many winds you have placed on the coil.
Counters are at McMaster Carr. |
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Mike Wheeler
From:
Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 11:15 am
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| In the late 60s, early 70s, I used to use a variable speed hand drill clamped in a large vise. I scatter-wound strat and tele PUs and manually counted the turns. Talk about time consuming!! But it worked, they were popular, and I made a buck or two. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 3:59 pm
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If you're mechanically minded, a junkyard speedometer can be cannibalized for the odometer (which is in reality just a turn-counter.)  |
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Rick Aiello
From:
Berryville, VA USA
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Larry Phleger
From:
DuBois, PA
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Posted 4 Nov 2006 5:08 pm
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| Thanks everyone for some really great information. |
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Randy Cordle
From:
Illinois, USA
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Posted 4 Nov 2006 6:47 pm
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Here is my pickup winder showing the counting mechanism. The larger rubber tired wheel rides on the drill chuck’s smoothest surface and rotates 1 time for each 6.37 turns of the winder head. Nothing magic about the number, it was easier to turn the wheel to an approximate diameter and let the calculator do the conversion for me. In practice you clear the display and enter 6.37 + on the keypad. The calculator uses its automatic constant function (built in to almost all calculators) to increment the display by 6.37 each time the magnet closes its contacts. The tricky part of most counters is not being able to track the rotation of the main shaft reliably. The speed reduction wheel of mine takes care of that. As far as accuracy, what is 6.37 divided into 9,000 or 10,000 turns? Pretty good number if you ask me. The hardest part of this type of counter is disassembling a cheap calculator, finding the solder points connected to the points coming from the = keypad, and soldering those tiny points. But hey, we’re used to soldering that #42 wire, aren’t we?
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[This message was edited by Randy Cordle on 04 November 2006 at 06:51 PM.] [This message was edited by Randy Cordle on 04 November 2006 at 06:55 PM.] |
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