I'm cheap, coil jigs are IMHO expensive, even for the chinese knock-offs, so I wanted to see if I could build something easily with what I had lying around.
Cut two pieces of dowel, taken from a old tool handle, to 4". Marked center-ish
, drilled a hole in each piece just below 3mm diameter, pounded in a 3mm metal rod I had laying around (took it out of a old DVD burner). Screwed in a self-tapping screw just offset from the center hole. Drilled a small hole on an angle in the handle that has the rod in it. Works just like a Coil Master. Well except for the ability to adjust the ID of the wrap....
Wraps 24-28 no problem so far, I don't have anything thicker to test it on yet, dunno if it would do 22 gauge. Sometimes I just want a simple 26 gauge micro, what it did in the picture is without squeezing or pressing it down at all, straight outta the jig.
Kinda looks like the coil is skewed in this shot, it's not, just the way it was laying on it's side, and the angle of the picture.
Cut two pieces of dowel, taken from a old tool handle, to 4". Marked center-ish
, drilled a hole in each piece just below 3mm diameter, pounded in a 3mm metal rod I had laying around (took it out of a old DVD burner). Screwed in a self-tapping screw just offset from the center hole. Drilled a small hole on an angle in the handle that has the rod in it. Works just like a Coil Master. Well except for the ability to adjust the ID of the wrap.... Wraps 24-28 no problem so far, I don't have anything thicker to test it on yet, dunno if it would do 22 gauge. Sometimes I just want a simple 26 gauge micro, what it did in the picture is without squeezing or pressing it down at all, straight outta the jig.
Kinda looks like the coil is skewed in this shot, it's not, just the way it was laying on it's side, and the angle of the picture.
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