Off topic--Turner Mic Coil Cord

[Dennis Norton]

Hi Folks, and a tip of the hat to Glen Zook. I was actually successful in
re-forming the coils of the microphone coil-cord and it now looks very
acceptable. I did as Glen Zook
suggested and turned the coils over--it looked better, but was still not a
tightly
stacked coil. I then tightly wound the coil-cord around a slightly smaller
mandrel and
secured the ends. I heated the coil stack evenly with a heat gun until it
was well soaked with heat and then rapidly chilled it with cold water to set
the re-form. Seems to have worked--looks uniform and normal again.

Thanks...Dennis Norton   W2DJN

----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Dennis Norton" <dnorton1 at ROCHESTER.RR.COM>; <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Off topic--Turner Mic Coil Cord


> A trick that often works is to reverse wind the cord.
> Start at the microphone end and turn the loops over.
> Let the plug end "dangle".
>
>
> Glen, K9STH
>
>> --- Dennis Norton <dnorton1 at ROCHESTER.RR.COM> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a technique to restore the memory
> to the jacketing and get the coils to stay tight to
> each other?
>
> =====

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