It took me forever to properly wind magnet wire…
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This is how I did it… (with the stuff I had in my room)
I took a screw, used a hacksaw to chop of the end of the screw.
I then wraped some duct tape over the screw so that it would provide support for the barrel as the screw is around a hundreths of an inch too small to be a perfect fit.. (the problem i was running into before caused my wrapping to compress the barrel and therefore causing more friction and my projectile to get stuck inside the tube)
I then cut my tube/barrel to the size of my desired coil, slipped it over the duct tape (forcefully, if it didn’t take force.. i think the tube would’ve been compressed again).. and then wrapped the barrel with 2 pieces of regular notebook paper so that i could slip the tube off and stick it on my real barrel..
i had two washers on the side that fit on my barrel perfectly…
then had to end thingys that acted as lockwashers…
weeee, i made a coiling jig without having to goto the hardware store..
to wrap.. i just wrap as tightly as possible and the picture is what you get!
i wrapped 8 layers and is ~>1inch in length
