Heater wiring rant

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FourT6and2
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Re: Heater wiring rant

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This is how I do it. So easy and clean!

To get the bus wire straight, I take a long length (4-5 feet) and tie each end around a screw driver. I step on one screw driver with both feet, and hold the other one in my hands like a T-Grip. Then you pull reaaaaaaally hard and twist slightly. Maybe 45 degrees back and forth a bit. The wire will go perfectly straight as soon as you feel it stretch ever so slightly.

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Ken Moon
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Re: Heater wiring rant

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I usually do it like this. I know it's not quite the Merlin method, as he says this way creates a loop, but it's just a lot easier for me than going "up the middle" on the small preamp tube sockets.

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Re: Heater wiring rant

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Ken Moon wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2017 2:30 am I usually do it like this. I know it's not quite the Merlin method, as he says this way creates a loop, but it's just a lot easier for me than going "up the middle" on the small preamp tube sockets.

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How do you make sure the filaments are all phased correctly when you use all one color wire?
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Ken Moon
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Re: Heater wiring rant

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Those are two slightly different shades of red, from different batches of wire 8)
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Re: Heater wiring rant

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Ken Moon wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2017 9:28 am Those are two slightly different shades of red, from different batches of wire 8)
Sneaky sneaky
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