I saved one from the scrap pile today........

[Mel Parker]

n/t

 

[badarse]

n/t

 

[OldBeechnut]

It's been some time since I posted. You are right about that. There are a couple of igo maniacs here that always had some unkind word to say so I stayed away. All I ever tried to do was to help you guys out as I'm a long time sovereign user and thought I could positively add to the conversation but got turned off from the constant influx of negativity. So I left for awhile.

I have been building my own coils a long time and have been using MEK for bonding . Really works well. What I did was to carefully cut the connector off even with the top of the coil. Cut the 4 wires so that only a 1/4 inch was left and splayed them out flat 90 degrees from one another. Soldered up a new cable. Then made a ring from some plastic I use to form coil shells and bonded it with my MEK slurry to the existing raised coil connection part of the coil. At that point I filled it with epoxy and slid a new cable connector down into the epoxy. Once set it's as good as new.

I understand, and Welcome back...thanks for posting the info, makes it alot easier seeing someone else's craftmanship. Be safe and looking forwards to your next post........joe

So the MEK slurry is used to melt the old plastic by disolving, then poured, and it air dries? I used MEK a long time ago, and it served as a thinner in place of Acrylic lacquer thinner...so maybe acrylic lac thinner would work also, since both dissolve plastic and is only used as a thinner.

 

[Mel Parker]

You pour pure MEK into a Nalgene bottle until it's half full, then you add bits and pieces of an old coil cover and leave it sit over night with the lid on tight. The next day if the solution is to runny add more coil cover pieces until you get the consistency you want. Use a syringe with out the needle to apply the mixture. This provides a great bond that you can't pull apart.

 

[tvr]

Mel,
My apologies if you already covered it and I missed it ... on the white plastic that you use as a mold ... is it bonded in too as part of the repair or is that part removed after the plastic slurry sets up? If it is removed, what is different about that material?

Have you ever had a case where the wire insulation is dissolved and the wire conductors move and short before it all sets up?
Thanks in advance!
tvr

 

[Mel Parker]

The white 1 1/2" PVC mold stays there and becomes part of the coil. I got the PVC pipe at Home Depot and changed it's shape with a heat gun. The wires never melt because they are not exposed to the MEK, just the filler epoxy.

 

[tvr]

Ahhh ... OK. I was thinking the whole thing was filled with the slurry. I looked again and do see the one picture shows the wires in the tube filled with epoxy.
Thank you again Mel!
tvr

 

[stumppass]

Brilliant, that's all I got for this one!

 

[OldBeechnut]

bump... Got several people having issues. This the cable used and this is how Mel does it...

 

[vleonard1844]

Pot heads are not even on the same planet as meth heads.
That is an ignorant statement.

 

[timmysys]

Thank you for sharing MEL. Very good repair. I will remeber this method if I will needed.