I would guess that 100% of the QRP Labs kits are shipped
with some manufacturer's thermaleze equivalent wire.
I would further guess that a very, very small contingent
in this group would use their own wire over the wire provided
by QRP Labs with their kits... I am one of that contingent,
but only because I use a toroid winding machine, and filling
my winding machine's shuttle from short hanks of wire is a
chore.
But you are right, if you use something exotic, such as a
ceramic insulated wire, my tip about using a common lighter
won't work.
You may not know it, so I will help you: You are using an
exotic wire. I will jump out on a limb and say that most QRP
Labs kit builders, aren't.
-Chuck Harris, WA3UQV
On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 09:10:42 -0700 "Stan Dye via groups.io"
<standye@...> wrote:
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 08:57 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
Unless you are using some exotic insulated wire, a few
seconds of exposure to the flame of a butane lighter will
easily burn off the enamel.
My experience is different, Chuck.? A simple roll of wire (certainly
not exotic) I bought on Amazon from a quality manufacturer happens to
have a high-temperature enamel.? So yes, I can burn it off, but only
with with a high-temperature butane torch, but not a simple butane
lighter flame nor any soldering temperatures. Other wire types do
have enamel that is specially formulated to burn off with solder or
at low temperatures - you can often see it in their specs. The .6
wire that Hans originally provided is somewhere between the two - if
I didn't scrape it at least some amount, to significantly fracture
its surface, it wouldn't burn off for me with soldering nor a simple
lighter flame.? And I don't like to use a high-temperature torch.
Stan KC7XE.
