I found a spool of 26 gauge enamel coated copper wire...What can I do with it?

[zachomega]

Not sure exactly how much I have...but maybe 200 feet? 

Any ideas?

-Zach

[Zben3129]

Hmmm enamel wire,

Isn't that the stuff used for Xformers/inductors?

Could try-
  *Winding inductors for a wah
  *Winding a small OT for maybe a ruby or something...tube amp OT's are a LOT harder, trust me, from experience....
  *Winding a PT of some kind
  *ABSTRACT ART!!!!!!!


Zach

[earthtonesaudio]

26 gauge is pretty big compared to most sizes of magnet wire I have seen (usually 30-40 gauge).  Whatever you make would probably be able to handle a good amount of power, but it would be physically larger than a smaller-gauge equivalent part.

[GravityRobert]

I'm not entirely sure if this would be suitable for making guitar pickups but you could give it a try?

[bent]

do some diystompboxes....  ;

[The Tone God]

I'm not entirely sure if this would be suitable for making guitar pickups but you could give it a try?

26 is way too big for pickups or atleast any what could be considered decent sounding.

Andrew

[frank]

A choke for a power supply in a 12ax7 tube effect.

[GravityRobert]

I'm not entirely sure if this would be suitable for making guitar pickups but you could give it a try?

26 is way too big for pickups or atleast any what could be considered decent sounding.

You never know!  Could be the most EVIL guitar pickup ever.... or worst sounding

[frank]

I'm not entirely sure if this would be suitable for making guitar pickups but you could give it a try?

26 is way too big for pickups or atleast any what could be considered decent sounding.

You never know!  Could be the most EVIL guitar pickup ever.... or worst sounding

Imagine the weight for having an OK impedance in a humbucker!!!!!

[earthtonesaudio]

Aren't there humbuckers out there called "quarter pounders" by Seymour Duncan or something like that?  Yours could be "four pounders"

[The Tone God]

A pickup with that large of a wire gauge will be very low output. Not what I would call "evil".

Andrew

[zachomega]

Just on the spool with the wire wound haphazardly, I got a measurement of 2.75 mH and when I put a screwdriver shank into the spool, I was able to raise it up to about 3 mH...Bear in mind the spool is large so the screwdriver shank was nowhere near the wire. 

I also took a short bit of it and tried winding it around a larger drill bit.  I got a reading in the microhenry range. 

Nothing particularly useful. 

I'd hate to waste it just as bare hookup wire. 

-Zach

[Ben N]

Aren't there humbuckers out there called "quarter pounders" by Seymour Duncan or something like that? 

Actually, overwound singles.

[km-r]

OT's secondary for 100W marshalls...

errr... acoustic guitar strings???

[Lonzo]

hmmm....

A hat....a brooch.....a pterodactyl?

cheers,
'zo

sorry....couldn't resist...

[mdh]

Know what?  Not all interesting/amusing/diverting things under the sun have to do with guitars, though I suppose this is a heresy around these parts.  Magnet wire is great for... magnets!  And solenoids!  Seriously, wind several courses of that wire over a skinny tube about 2 inches long, stick a finishing nail in the tube, and connect the ends of the coil to a DC voltage.  Then spend a couple of hours reading about magnetic fields on wikipedia.  This was my childhood, minus the wikipedia.  Of course, I had a 1963 set of World Book encyclopedias that had many hazardous/toxic/otherwise inadvisable science experiments in it.

So, think outside the (stomp)box just this once, and have some fun!