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Re: More creeping wire syndrome

10/13/2002 9:02 AM
WolfeMacleod	Re: More creeping wire syndrome Andy Tension is constant. I wind at right angles. My wire comes straight up through a hole in the table, through the felt-tensioner, and onto the bobbin. The wire path is as straight to the bobbin as I can make it. It's as if...someone is pushing my tensioner towards the centre of the coil...but I know it's not moving, since the tensioner is secured in place. I checked the bobbin mount also. It's about as close to 90 degrees as I can get it with a bubble-level. This only happens occasionally...not every time. It seems to happen mostly on Tele bridge pickups, rarely on strats (except today!), and almost never on humbucker coils (in fact, never that I recall) It's crazy, I tell you! WOlfe

10/13/2002 9:02 AM

WolfeMacleod

Re: More creeping wire syndrome

Andy
Tension is constant. I wind at right angles.
My wire comes straight up through a hole in the table, through the felt-tensioner, and onto the bobbin. The wire path is as straight to the bobbin as I can make it.
It's as if...someone is pushing my tensioner towards the centre of the coil...but I know it's not moving, since the tensioner is secured in place.
I checked the bobbin mount also. It's about as close to 90 degrees as I can get it with a bubble-level.
This only happens occasionally...not every time. It seems to happen mostly on Tele bridge pickups, rarely on strats (except today!), and almost never on humbucker coils (in fact, never that I recall)
It's crazy, I tell you!

WOlfe

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Andy Good at last you've identified thos... -- 10/13/2002 9:43 AM