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Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> where can I get a design for a good wiring/embedding board suitable
> for MD deeps ?
Here's a picture of my setup- nothing fancy, threw it together in an
afternoon.
http://www.sweettimeapiary.com/pics/wiring_bench.jpg
> I know there is a design out there that uses a cam to bend the side
> bars. When these spring back out they tension the wires. But does it
> really work ?
I have strategically placed nails in the board to put a bend in the
bottom bar be it deep, medium, or shallow, which you can see in the
picture. It seems to help tension the wires, but not much.
> Is it better to pass current through one wire at a time, or all in
> parallel ?
I generally do one wire at a time with probes for better control and
better embedding. Sometimes the vertical wires in the foundation short
out the horizontal wires so I get better results doing one wire at a
time, sometimes even half a wire at a time. I enjoy it, it's the best
part of making frames, also the last step :)
> Is it better to have the tensioned wires resting on the wax..
Yes.
> Surely there are small differences in the geometry of side bars, so I
> need some method of adjusting (up or down) the plane in which the wires
> lie ? No ?
I haven't noticed that.
> In the past I kept the wires taught by pulling them tight with a frame
> nail, but it is not very convenient.
I tension the wire with a pair of round-nosed pliers (you can see them
on the far right). Sometimes I use a tape clamp, used by surveyors to
grip a steel tape (left of the pliers). Tensioning without snapping is
the trick.
George-
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