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Sulaiman
Sun Oct 18 2015, 10:27AM
Sulaiman Registered Member #162 Joined: Mon Feb 13 2006, 10:25AM
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any steel near your primary will get surprisingly hot, better to use nylon screws/nuts or adhesives.
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dexter
Sun Oct 18 2015, 11:03AM
dexter Registered Member #42796 Joined: Mon Jan 13 2014, 06:34PM
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this how i mount my secondary coils to the frame
1445166195 42796 FT173565 Sstcmountcap
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nzoomed
Sun Oct 18 2015, 09:17PM
nzoomed Registered Member #54503 Joined: Sun Feb 22 2015, 10:35PM
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Sulaiman wrote ...

any steel near your primary will get surprisingly hot, better to use nylon screws/nuts or adhesives.

Well i guess thats possible, because its essentially an induction coil.

What about all the screws holding my primary coil mounts to the base?

They are scattered everywhere, but it seems lots of people do this.

I think i might get my friend to 3D print me a bolt out of nylon or PET-G for the base.
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Hydron
Mon Oct 19 2015, 11:15PM
Hydron Registered Member #30656 Joined: Tue Jul 30 2013, 02:40AM
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I used nylon bolts for everything near the primary, but I suspect that small screw for primary supports etc are fine.

Check out Hi-Q components (Link2 for nylon bolts etc, I got M4, M5 and M12 (!!) bolts and nuts from them for reasonable prices.
The M12 especially were useful for securing end-caps etc, and I also used them to rig up a secondary height adjustment system to allowing coupling to be changed (though I'd probably skip that next time, too much work for little benefit). Note that the M12 bolt price is cheap (not much more than a buck a pop) up to a certain length, then gets much more expensive, at least when I ordered mine.
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Antonio
Tue Oct 20 2015, 12:29AM
Antonio Registered Member #834 Joined: Tue Jun 12 2007, 10:57PM
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There is no need to seal the coil for electrical reasons. A breakdown along the coil would prefer to occur at the outer side, close to the wires, not inside. Closed ends may simplify the assembly, but it's enough to make two plugs, one below where to fix the coil and another above, to fix the terminal. It may be a good idea to avoid metal screws, but at not insane power levels I doubt that they can cause any problem.
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nzoomed
Tue Oct 20 2015, 04:13AM
nzoomed Registered Member #54503 Joined: Sun Feb 22 2015, 10:35PM
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Hydron wrote ...

I used nylon bolts for everything near the primary, but I suspect that small screw for primary supports etc are fine.

Check out Hi-Q components (Link2 for nylon bolts etc, I got M4, M5 and M12 (!!) bolts and nuts from them for reasonable prices.
The M12 especially were useful for securing end-caps etc, and I also used them to rig up a secondary height adjustment system to allowing coupling to be changed (though I'd probably skip that next time, too much work for little benefit). Note that the M12 bolt price is cheap (not much more than a buck a pop) up to a certain length, then gets much more expensive, at least when I ordered mine.

Thanks for that, i will check them out!

A single m8-m10 bolt is probably strong enough for what im doing.

Antonio wrote ...

There is no need to seal the coil for electrical reasons. A breakdown along the coil would prefer to occur at the outer side, close to the wires, not inside. Closed ends may simplify the assembly, but it's enough to make two plugs, one below where to fix the coil and another above, to fix the terminal. It may be a good idea to avoid metal screws, but at not insane power levels I doubt that they can cause any problem.
Thats always good to know. Will save me much time and expense!
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Signification
Mon Oct 26 2015, 03:07PM
Signification Registered Member #54278 Joined: Sat Jan 17 2015, 04:42AM
Location: Amite, La.
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In this article Link2
take a look at the mentions involving moisture and endcaps--what do you think??
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