coil wire loss!!!

metallicaxlxl

metallicaxlxl

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i lost an end of the copper wire that wraps around the coils in pickups, the red copper thing, it has 2 ends, start and finish. i still have the end thats on top, but i lost the one that comes from underneath. is there anyways of retreaving this without sompletely rewinding it?
 
Re: coil wire loss!!!

You can't find it -- or it broke off?

If you just lost sight of it, keep looking. If it broke off, I hate to say it, but it's rewind time...

P.S. That was...

POST 3,000!!!

(I am now apparently a member of Mojo's Minions...)
 
Re: coil wire loss!!!

congrats on the 3000!! i just got 300 not to long ago haha.

i have a bad feeling that it ripped off, i looked for it everywhere, with a magnifying glass and everything, but nothing, and on one of the wires that ripped out, well, theres a piece of coil wire, so uh ohh!!! good thing these are crappy epiphone pickups haha

so if i have to settle for rewinding it, is there any home makable machine to do this, i remember some guy saying he used some lego thing to do it. i dont really want to do it 100% by hand.
 
Re: coil wire loss!!!

Zhangliqun said:
You can't find it -- or it broke off?

If you just lost sight of it, keep looking. If it broke off, I hate to say it, but it's rewind time...

P.S. That was...

POST 3,000!!!

(I am now apparently a member of Mojo's Minions...)
Click to expand...

You talk too much.... Your title should be Mojo's Maker though
 
Re: coil wire loss!!!

If you've never wound a pickup before, this is a job for MJ or some other winder. You would really need brand new coil wire anyway because putting the old wire on there would be a lot more hassle, especially if the pickup was potted. You would have to carefully unwind every turn and wind it up on a spool, and with all the bends and possible kinks, it might break when you wind it back on the pickup off the spool.

Send it to MJ.
 
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yeah well, its a crappy epiphone pickup, im not sure if its even worth to get it rewound. i guess that ill use the neck pickup in the bridge cavity. sucks that the bridge one ****ed up, thats the one i needed!! (im getting my cavity routed and i wanted a pickup to put in there just while i wait for a CC to come in.

i was getting a bit worried, i mean if i cant even take appart this epiphone pickup, how am i suppose to make the cc and my friends a2p into hybrids!!! but than i thought about this, the epiphone was the crappiest pickup id ever seen. all the wires was under the thinnest layer of tape at the bottom, so as i took that off, it ripped everythign out (bad thing) the lead wires werent 2 wires soldered and taped together, they were 1 wire going from one coil to the other. Seymour duncan's wires are made much better, and are much more easy to get into and switch around.

i hope that after fiddling around with these pickups this much, ill be able to do this without any trouble..

o yeah and...

putting the neck flath slug part on to the bridge's screw slug would make way too much of a resistance difference wouldnt it? so id be better off with just using the neck pickup?
 
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Re: coil wire loss!!!

you could use the neck pickup in the bridge...probably wouldn't sound as good, and probably wouldn't have as hot of an output, but it will still produce a signal.

just gives you a reason to buy a duncan to toss in there :D
 
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well, i guess this wasnt a total loss. i now have a nice copper ball to play with :laugh2: although it does get my hands pretty waxy. ill try and reassemble the neck humbucker tomorow. hopefully i wont get too much trouble from that.
 
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